[PLUG] anti virus

[Edward Webb]

goody.. well id love to update my systems.. but it times out beforehand :(
Shwim <shwim@purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.1000990025.15706.plug@csociety.purdue.edu...
> My guess is that the email traffic and multiple hits is what they were
> talking about.
> They said affected, not infected.  Basically any system is vulnerable to
the
> effects
> due to the overloading of networks, but as far as the system being
> compromised
> or spreading the worm, I do not think anything but NT/2000 boxes are
> compromised.
>
> You would have thought that after Code Red the sysadmins would have kept
> up-to-date
> with the patches to their systems, but I guess there are still lame
> sysadmins out there.
> When will incompetent sysadmins start getting the boot?
>
> Manny
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deepak Dinesh" <deepak@purdue.edu>
> To: "Plug" <plug@csociety.purdue.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] anti virus
>
>
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Christopher N. Deckard wrote:
> >
> > >The Nimda/CodeRed/etc virus/worm that is going around ONLY affects
> > >Microsoft Windows operating systems running an unpatched version of
> > >Internet Information Server.
> > >
> > >LINUX IS NOT AFFECTED
> >
> > The warning email from ECN said that UNIX was affected. I don't know why
> they
> > said this. Apparently, any system with an email client is affected !!
> >
> >
> > DD
>
>