[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Bernard Peek]

In message <200301270908.h0R98xU05590 at isengard.accucard.com>, Tethys 
<tet at accucard.com> writes
>
>Robert Wood writes:
>
>>WARNING! SQL Server worm on the loose!!!!!!!!!!!
>>you have a sql server connected to the Internet? READ!
>
>I'm still boggled that this ever happened in the first place. I mean,
>sure, anyone can have buggy programs -- it happens to us all, and to
>their credit, even Microsoft had fixed this one long ago. But who in
>their right mind would have an SQL server directly connected to the
>net anyway?

If you buy Microsoft's Small Business Server you get all of your server 
software in one box. Typically it will be used in small sites as a 
web-server without any additional firewall.



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