[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 27 Jan Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 09:08, Tethys wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Dell do, apparently.  Their technical support desk has been offline for
> several hours due to "a virus".  I'm awaiting a call back from a call I
> logged at 7.30am this morning.

Some other amusing alledged victims include hotmail and the US
Department of Homeland Security.  guffaw.

doug.

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