[vox] Latest Microsoft worm hits big

[Richard Mancusi]

I can hardly wait until ABC News sends someone to the office supply
store to buy more typewriter ribbons.  I think you may be looking at
a special order for "old typewriters".  They will be down to paper and
pencil.  Of course if M$ made those, they would be virus stricken
also - Dutch Elm Disease.

Rich


On 17 Aug 2005 08:54:30 -0700, Tim Riley <timriley at appahost.com> wrote:
> The Wall Street Journal reported today about the latest worm
> to hit Microsoft's Windows 2000. And it hit big-time.
> "At CNN, the worm knocked out studios in Atlanta and New York, forcing
> the cable news channel to telecast from Washington until operations in
> New York could be restored."
> 
> Also affected were computers at Time Warner, New York Times,
> Kraft Foods, UPS, and 13 Chrysler manufacturing plants. Also, ABC News
> had to pull out old typewriters to write the copy for World News
> Tonight.
> 
> The worm, called Zotob, delivers a malicious file and changes the
> registry. One variant of the worm causes the computer to continually
> reboot.
> 
> Thank God for Linux's protected mode.
> 
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