, 2004-04-07
The Witty worm set a dangerous precedent on the Internet because it introduced a number of evil new "firsts" in the ever-changing world of modern worms and viruses.
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Witty Extinction
, 2004-04-07 The Witty worm set a dangerous precedent on the Internet because it introduced a number of evil new "firsts" in the ever-changing world of modern worms and viruses.
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Johan Beckers, director of technology solutions at ISS EMEA, told ZDNet UK that all of ISS's "legal" customers could have updated their systems to avoid Witty but he admitted that the 12,000 systems affected by Witty were most likely to be companies that had let their maintenance agreements expire: "All our products had an update available to prevent the attack from happening -- this was available to all customers that had paid their maintenance and were legal customers. If you don't pay maintenance, you are not allowed to use the products any more," he said.
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Not that I'm suspicious or anything; but a vulnerability is revealled and a solution is released. Everyone who had paid for protection was okay, and those who had not paid for protection were hit. I've seen old gangster movies with a weaker plot than that.
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