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Re: Administrativa: virus wave again

From: Alain Samoun <alain_at_sonic.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:43:14 -0700

Note from my ISP:
 The vulnerability in IIS which the new "Nimda" worm uses was
patched in October of 2000, almost a year ago, so any customers hosting IIS
machines which are up to date have not been infected.
Alain

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:47:48PM -0700, Len Marinaccio wrote:
> On 19 Sep 01, at 2:14, Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> > And *still* the press has yet to note that only Microsoft users are affected
> > (except by the nearly DoS-level scanning that the IIS vector does.)
>
> <*sigh*> That's why I do not use Outlook and I keep telling my
> friends to dump it. But they don't. Then they complain when they
> get bit. Some people don't learn.
>
>
> Len
Received on 2001-09-19