[Gllug] Code Red Worm!

[David Irvine]

Well if users and companies would wake up and smell the open source coffee
this kind of thing would hardly be an issue, however since so many people
are still in microsoft dream land the rest of us have to suffer not because
our own machines are infected but because somebody else hasn't bothered to
make sure their system is safe and as a result there is a dos for the rest
of us.

And then you get media who don't have a clue what they are talking about
jumping on the apocalypse bandwagon instead of looking at what the problem
actually is - microsoft and proprietary ignorance. Arg!

I'm off to become a chimp and work in  a library


David

----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Code Red Worm!


>
>
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/events01/scitech/net_virus/red_code30jul
.ram>
> >
>
>
>                   Internet's 'very real'
>                   virus threat
>                   The US government and security
>                   watchdogs urge organisations around
>                   the world to protect themselves
>                   against a malicious program known as
>                   the Code Red worm.
>
>
>                                                                 real 56k
>
>                   Also:
>
>                     BBC News Online's Kevin Anderson in Washington
>                     "The FBI is concerned this could affect the
>                     performance of the entire Internet"   real 56k
>
>
>
> CERT are lagging behind the BBC and the FBI then?
>
> Gordo
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