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The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, 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]
in my network of over 800 machines a firewall, automatic anti-virus and windows updating has saved my butt many times.

I wonder though, why won't the large ISPs (AOL, ComCast, Roadrunner, etc) firewall their networks and protect all of their customers?

A customer using one of those networks ra...

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