[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Jason Clifford]

On 27 Jan 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote:

> > > Use a VPN (either via IPsec, or just an ssh tunnel).
> > 
> > A VPN is not going to protect you from a worm such as the MS-SQL users 
> > experienced over the weekend.
> 
> It does to the extent that there is not an open firewall port for the
> worm to exploit.

As I explained in my message (and you snipped!) that is not much 
protection unless you control things at the other end of the VPN as well 
as your own.

Jason Clifford
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