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SLAMMER VIRUS??

Started by Midnight Sun, 01/28/2003 04:17AM
Posted 01/28/2003 04:17AM Opening Post
Can anyone tell me why a worm, like the latest, Dubed "Slammer" introduced to the World last week, is produced to wreck havoc?? Is it Terrorism? Or a Computer nut that get his/her kicks from watching the sensationalism they involk? S.Korea got hit the hardest, infiltrating their World Web. In this Country Hundreds of Banks were frozen at the ATMs... Airline Travel Agencies were shutdown. GW is going to have to find a viable safeguard for emergency & communication resoures, so they are not enabled by these insidious programs.. If not generated by our definition of "Terrorist" then what kind of motive do the perpetrators have? what is their ultimate goal? John Meiners

Posted 01/28/2003 05:03AM #1
As far as I know, Microsoft released a patch to prevent this from happening--last July. It seems like some system administrators are not doing their job.