, 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.
a worm author
Malicious attackers *HATE* worms, because worms kill the vulnerability. Anyone out there complaining about msblast or other worms (especially the worms that patch systems!) are idiots. If it weren't for all this panic mongering, attackers w...
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