Re: the latest worm

2003-01-26 Thread dep
begin  m.w.chang's  quote:
| was it another DOS attack on the root dns server?
| There is quite delay when accessing American web-sites from Hong
| kong.

no. it was a worm exploiting a vulnerability in ms sql server -- *and* 
apps such as mailservers which include a significant portion of sql 
server.

an overview is on linuxandmain.com (amazingly, drudge linked to it 
under the overline microsoft hole), and a technical description, 
now pretty much complete, is here: 
http://www.techie.hopto.org/sqlworm.html
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dep

http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within
the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.
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the latest worm

2003-01-26 Thread m.w.chang

was it another DOS attack on the root dns server?
There is quite delay when accessing American web-sites from Hong kong.

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