Benjamin Scott wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
>
>>My concern today is that we have been at least partially affected by
>>this Code <color> virus ...
>>
>
> You mean the Nimda worm/virus? ("Admin" spelled backwards.) This one is
>great. It attacks vulnerabilities in MS Outlook, MS IE, and MS IIS. It
>mass-emails itself automatically. It harvests email addresses from your
>system. It infects local executables. It sets itself to run at startup.
>In installs the "Guest" account with admin privileges. It shares your hard
>drive with the world. It scans the local IP subnet for vulnerable IIS
>systems (unpatched, or nailed by Code Red II and not fixed) and infects
>them.
>
> My personal recommendation is: If you use Microsoft products, shutdown the
>computer and don't turn it back on until you have replaced your Microsoft
>software with someone else's.
>Aye, very well put...
>
JFeole
>
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