He was probably talking about the slapper worm.  It was pretty much
nothing to worry about.  You had to be running as rott and being
fairly careless to have any problems.  It taught about 7,000 sysadmin
the error of their ways.  As opposed to any script-kiddie worm aimed
at Lookout that hoses a few million everytime.

Doug


--- cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone heard about a Linux worm that's been going around for a
> couple of weeks?  A microsoft guy at work asked me about it and
> that was
> the first I heard of it.  Was he pulling my leg?
> Cleve...I need to get out more.
> 
> 
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