[Gloucs] Microsoft SQL Server slows Internet

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

now theres a surprise... ;o)

I wondered why the net was so slow at work on saturday.

M

>-----Original Message-----
>From: john mckeown [mailto:jmckeown@glos.ac.uk]
>Sent: 27 January 2003 10:02
>To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Gloucs] Microsoft SQL Server slows Internet
>
>
>re: disruptions at the weekend
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Another vulnerability in a Microsoft product has slowed and in some 
>places effectively brought down the Internet. "Sapphire" exploits a 
>hole in Microsoft's SQL Server.
>
>The worm affected the things we normally think of as the 
>Internet -- the 
>Web, email -- and services such as automatic teller machines and even 
>the servers at American Express. 
>
>The problems are manifold: Microsoft ships software with holes 
>all over 
>it. It later ships patches. But those patches are said sometimes to 
>break more than they fix, leading system administrators to be 
>extremely 
>circumspect about applying them.
>
>Every notable Internet disruption since Robert Morris's 1988 worm has 
>had Microsoft products at its center. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>from LinuxandMain
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