, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14
The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.
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The Bright Side of Blaster
2003-08-15
mark (at) challender (dot) com [email concealed] (3 replies)
mark (at) challender (dot) com [email concealed] (3 replies)
hackers HATE worms
2003-08-15
a worm author (1 replies)
a worm author (1 replies)
hackers HATE worms
2003-08-16
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
hackers HATE worms
2003-08-17
bleek (1 replies)
bleek (1 replies)
45 mins- 1 1/2 hours clean install and drivers. 3 more hours d/ling service packs and patches.
(new OS if you consider the size of them)
15-45 mins "activating" your system while you try to learn to speak another language on the phone.
Another hour installing aplications all while hoping that the new service packs and patches don't break them.
Another 30 mins re-imageing your OS because your last ones are now "insecure". And thats provided that the "average" user knows how to do that.
I'm in no means a MS basher, but if they were and auto maker, they would be loosing so many lawsuits right now, it wouldn't even be close to funny.
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