Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

From: Jim Richardson <warlock_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:43:58 -0800
Message-ID: <u43jg-dvv.ln1@grendel.myth>

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:00:53 GMT,
 Simon Cooke <simoncooke_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> Sinister Midget <xunil_at_kc-rr.com> scribbled:
>

>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:09:10 GMT, simoncooke_at_earthlink.net drooled
>> and scribbled:
>>> RonB <ronb_at_blizz.34sp.com> scribbled:
>>>
>>>> Simon Cooke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Most software developers aren't going to care about patches to SQL
>>>>> Server -- especially if they don't use it, or are not running a
>>>>> site. As far as they're concerned, it's just a part of their dev
>>>>> system, and one they don't look at too often.
>>>>>
>>>>> *That* is why it caused problems for MS.
>>>>
>>>> Bottom line, M$ didn't take care of the SQL patch in their own
>>>> house. And you think other corporatins have more WNDOZE expertise
>>>> or time for patches than M$?
>>>
>>> Bottom line, Linux is a minority OS whose userbase pales in
>>> comparison to that of Windows.
>>
>> What does linux have to do with MICROS~1 not fixing the things right
>> under their own noses, then blaming everybody else for the same thing?
>>
>> That wasn't even close to a reasonable attempt to change the subject.
>> That was so blatant that Micro-Soft should fire you NOW for such a
>> horrendous slipup!!

>
> No, SinisterWhatever, that's not the point.
>
> The point is this:
>
> The machines which got hit were not servers. They were predominantly
> regular workstation boxes, used by Joe Q. Developer at MS. Their servers
> getting hit were a side effect of the DDOS it caused *inside* their
> firewall, just from sheer network traffice.
>
> Simon
>
>

<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=562&ncid=738&e=10&u=/ap/20030128/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_worm>

<quote>
 Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller declined to say which areas or how many computers at Microsoft were affected. He acknowledged that some servers were left unfixed because administrators "didn't get around to it when they should have."
</quote>

Your assertion that it must have been developers who had VS with it's cut down version of mssql, is simply an assertion. The quote above, talks about servers, not developer's machines.

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Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 13:43:58 CST