[lug] Interesting Access Message

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Calvin Dodge wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:38:50PM +0000, Greg Horne wrote:
> > Damn the crackers!  It appears as if "he" is trying to ping himself eh?  Was
> > there a patch released for the unicode bug?
> 
> Yes, if "he" refers to Greg's web server.
> 
> A patch was released long ago - but some folks are lax about applying them (as evidenced by the windowsupdate.microsoft.com servers which were infected by "Code Red" recently).
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I'd like to see a reference to a trustworthy report on this event.  If
these servers were not kept up to date then users could have picked up
modified updates to their OS while those servers were in a cracked
state.  I don't recall reading about it though.

Ferdinand

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