Re: FW: Reuters.com - Internet Worm Disguised as E-Mail from Microsoft - Mon May 19, 2003 03:09 PM ET

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:19:11AM +0200, William Stucke wrote:
> 1	This is Africa, the continent with HIGH network costs. Most of our
> networks are sized *just* big enough, because that's all we can afford
> 2	Let's not get too complacent, and forget the Morris Worm, shall we? ;-)

Oh absolutely. I've seen enough badly-maintained Unix servers over the
years, and even my own printserver at home got rootkitted (it was running an
old version of Red Hat with a vulnerable lprng; I hadn't stayed on the Linux
mailing lists as I don't use it any more, but I also hadn't bothered
reinstalling it with FreeBSD. Needless to say, I have now :-)

Generally though, it's not normally the content of the mail which is a
problem - it's the daemon which receives it.

Cheers,

Brian.

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