full-disclosure - Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!

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Message-ID: <200301252331.h0PNV5m02359@toad.rmkhome.com>
From: rmk at toad.rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!

Richard M. Smith said:

>   Bank of America ATMs Disrupted by Virus
> 
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&cid=569&u=/nm/2
>0030125/tc_nm/tech_virus_dc
>
>   "SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. said on 
>   Saturday that customers at a majority of its 13,000 
>   automatic teller machines were unable to process 
>   customer transactions after a malicious computer worm 
>   nearly froze Internet traffic worldwide."

Reason number 1001 for not using Microsoft software for anything other
than playing Quake on non-network attached machines.

I still see infected Windoze servers trying to pass NIMDA and Code Red to
my UNIX/Apache webserver...

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Rick Kelly  rmk@...home.com  www.rmkhome.com