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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 2003-08-20
Val
I only know from my own user's experience - when a user is infected, and is given 60 seconds before their machine reboots, they are a LOT more likely to patch their systems. A sense of panic does wonders.

I think a major benefit of this worm is that it woke a lot of *admins* up to their exposure...

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