Re: Waaaahoooooo

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:16:13 -0600
"A. John Peters" <ajpeters ajpconsult com> wrote:

> On 1/26/03 4:05 PM, "Geoff Buckingham" <g buckingham ntlworld com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Probably a good thing, until the next vulnerability comes up and
> > bites everyone on the arse.
> > 
> I would really like to blame Microsoft on this.  But given the date
> the vulnerability was listed,  it is more of a sysadm problem.  This
> could happen to Linux people who do not keep the patches up to date.

CNN or somebody was claiming the patch was available. But, it required
all kinds of hacks, it seemed to install just fine but didn't stop
anything on some machines, that it rendered other machines unusable.
Supposedly, on many of the machines that it seemed to be installed OK,
they showed it as being done properly even after being infected.

The _working_ patch has only been around for a few days. Since
approximately the time the problem surfaced.

While I agree a lot of admins didn't do their jobs, it looks as though
$MONOPOLY helped in the chaos by failing many of those who did.

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