These worms are so benign it's pathetic.  If only the Windows world realized just how 
much peril they could be in!  So far we've only really had worms that self-propagate 
and then did some token act to prove that they weren't gay.  But how many CodeRed and 
NIMDA machines could have had a format c: in them?  And this one?  Wow, it's REALLY 
benign.  Replicate then throw some traffic against Microsoft.  Again, this genre of 
Worm hasn't yet left the Proof Of Concept phase yet.  And they're really missing some 
opportunity to do some real damage.  This one is really bad because you know it 
immediately when you're whacked.  Not like the previous few which secretly spread and 
kept spreading while admins were none-the-wiser

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:41:21 -0400
Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> These worms get more and more vicious. What if the virus writer had intended
> to do obvious harm like erase eveyone's hard drive? I feel like windows
> users are still living in the pre-9/11 world.

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