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Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-worms-are-involved dept.

joel_archer writes "According this article at the DrudgeReport, a worm, apparently designed to patch MSBlaster infected Win2K and XP machines, brings various Canadian networks to a crawl. Hardest hit was the 411 system, Air Canada, and Ontario hydro electric operations. Apparently this is causing more problems than MSBlaster itself."

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  1. Re:Windows servers by kahei · · Score: 1, Troll


    But, we have had some problems with it. One day, it kept popping up a stupid dialog saying that the computer is too hot

    Ha! No *real* OS would ever warn about overheating! Real OSes just die!

    Later that same day, it popped up with a stupid message saying that had automatically downloaded and installed updates and patches for us.

    Ha ha! How pathetic, it automatically downloads patches when configured to do so! A REAL OS would rely on the Patch Fairy!

    See, this is a problem with putting gas station attendants in charge of computers.

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