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Worm story (Washington Post)
Probably not much new here for you, but I found it interesting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Aug13.html Dad |
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This was meant to go to my son, Paul Ingraham, the best massage therapist in
Vancouver! But, really, you are all my children! Anyway, the story is interesting to anyone who is forced to use a PC, poor souls.... :^) Bob From: Bob Ingraham Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:33:20 GMT Subject: Worm story (Washington Post) Probably not much new here for you, but I found it interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Aug13.html Dad |
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:42:24 GMT, Bob Ingraham
wrote: This was meant to go to my son, Paul Ingraham, the best massage therapist in Vancouver! But, really, you are all my children! Anyway, the story is interesting to anyone who is forced to use a PC, poor souls.... :^) tsk, tsk... I know you want one. Tracy Barber |
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"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message ... This was meant to go to my son, Paul Ingraham, the best massage therapist in Vancouver! But, really, you are all my children! Anyway, the story is interesting to anyone who is forced to use a PC, poor souls.... :^) Bob Turns out there is an advantage to having "older" technology (like ME) after all. Not susceptible to this worm! And don't you love how the Post demands certain information from you in order to access the story? I always make it up; they don't need to know this stuff. Mike |
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:03:00 -0400, "Doug Spade"
wrote: "Bob Ingraham" wrote in message ... This was meant to go to my son, Paul Ingraham, the best massage therapist in Vancouver! But, really, you are all my children! Anyway, the story is interesting to anyone who is forced to use a PC, poor souls.... :^) Bob Turns out there is an advantage to having "older" technology (like ME) after all. Not susceptible to this worm! I thought this was funny as well. There "may" be certain ports that the beats can come in on, so it's a safe bet that a firewall should be used. And don't you love how the Post demands certain information from you in order to access the story? I always make it up; they don't need to know this stuff. hehehehehe... Tracy Barber |
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From working in the Exhibition and Graphics industry, I've used both
systems as well as Linux. After having to continually run through 15,862 menus and clicks just to do a repteitive taks on the Mac, where a single 'combo' stroke does it on the PC - I'll gladly take the freedom and few problems of that system. Not to mention the much wider choices of software. BTW, the last 'apple' I "bit into" had a WORM! On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:42:24 GMT, Bob Ingraham found these unused words floating about: This was meant to go to my son, Paul Ingraham, the best massage therapist in Vancouver! But, really, you are all my children! Anyway, the story is interesting to anyone who is forced to use a PC, poor souls.... :^) Bob From: Bob Ingraham Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:33:20 GMT Subject: Worm story (Washington Post) Probably not much new here for you, but I found it interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Aug13.html Dad |
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"Tracy Barber" wrote in message ... I thought this was funny as well. There "may" be certain ports that the beats can come in on, so it's a safe bet that a firewall should be used. The worm crawled through a number of Michigan government departments this week, and shut down the state Senate for a few hours on Wednesday. Computers in Governor Granholm's office were knocked down for about an hour, but Department of Management and Budget and Department of Community Health were harder hit, taking up to two days to fix. Published reports say Michigan was better prepared for such an attack than many other places. Still trying to figure out why DIT (Department of Information Technology) would not have have gotten the patch in place long ago. Maybe the operative word is "government." Mike (who is proud to say the Michigan House computer system was better prepared than the Senate. Score one for the House!) |
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