Robert MacLean wrote: > > IMHO the problem isn't the virus it's windows admins. > patches from M$ were available for months before all this started, but > guess who is too lazy to download a patch and install it? > i work for a hosting company so we have some client dedicated servers > and they still haven't patched there servers. we email them, phone > them and unplug there machine to get there attention and they promise > to do it but never do. why? > if you ask me it's cause windows makes you lazy, not enough text files > to edit ;) > > ________________________________________ > Robert MacLean > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:57 PM > Subject: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users > too... > > > > > You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are > affecting > > me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my > weblogs. > > I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response > time and > > connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully > slow. > > > > If I open up port 80 on my firewall my weblogs are flooded with > these > > viruses. A lot of the ip addresses are coming from my ISPs subnet. > Is > > there anyway that I can let my ISP know about this and have then > contact the > > people infected by these viruses to let me know. I would imagine > that they > > already know about it. How can we get this stuff cleaned up? > > > > > > Will this insanity ever end? > > > > > IMHO, the root cause is the crappy Windows software, aided and abetted by the windows admins. I've been wondering why ISP's and hosting companies don't shut these sites down as being in violation of the TOS. Maybe I'm missing something here (and I have to admit that I don't have any experience in site administration), but with all of the publicity that there has been about these worms over the past two months, it seems to me that anyone who hasn't patched their system by now is either grossly negligent, utterly incompetent or both. (The scary part is that these same idiots are allowed to vote, drive and breed.) Carroll
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