[plug] new worm

Denis Brown dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Fri May 23 09:14:59 WST 2003


At 18:21 22/05/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Anyone had numerous mails from 
><mailto:support at microsoft.com>support at microsoft.com yet!  Its a newish 
>worm see:
>
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3040247.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3040247.stm
>
>I've had almost 90+ mails from them yesterday and they are pouring in 
>today.  Wots next threats from SCO :¬0

Had this one sent to an internal mail alias where it reached something like 
90 people on Sunday, only a day or so after it was released.    Oddly 
enough AusCERT hasn't mentioned it yet.

Yet another reason to drag my people kicking and screaming into the "Linux 
century".

Denis




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