[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 27 Jan, Tethys bloviated thus:

> But who in their right mind would have an SQL server directly
> connected to the net anyway?

Yes but consider this scenario.  One of the desktops has MS SQL on it,
for development or perhaps because some app depends on it.  That
machine, for whatever reason (probably so they can do Kazaa) is
externally addressable.  It also has access to the internal MS SQL
servers.  Bang, all of 'em get infected.

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