the latest worm

[dep]

begin  m.w.chang's  quote:
| was it another DOS attack on the root dns server?
| There is quite delay when accessing American web-sites from Hong
| kong.

no. it was a worm exploiting a vulnerability in ms sql server -- *and* 
apps such as mailservers which include a significant portion of sql 
server.

an overview is on linuxandmain.com (amazingly, drudge linked to it 
under the overline "microsoft hole"), and a technical description, 
now pretty much complete, is here: 
http://www.techie.hopto.org/sqlworm.html
-- 
dep

http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within
the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.