[oclug] Microsoft hit by CodeRed

[bbarnett at L8R.net]

On 09-Aug-2001 Dean Staff wrote:
> Check this out...
> 
> Dean
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> MICROSOFT HIT BY CODE RED
> 
> Posted at August 09, 2001 07:18 AM Pacific
> 
> PROVING AGAIN THAT it doesn't practice what it
> preaches, Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that the
> Code Red worm infected two servers used for its
> Hotmail Web-based e-mail service.
> 
> "A few MSN Hotmail servers were affected by the Code
> Red worm virus. The servers were promptly removed from
> the MSN Hotmail environment, shut down, and patched,"
> said a Microsoft spokeswoman in the United Kingdom,
> adding that the infection was detected late Wednesday
> afternoon in the United States.
> 

That's quite funny.  I know hotmail used to be run on a bunch of bsd boxes, and
that they keep trying to move it to NT.  Now that this has happened, its another
setback for them, bwhjaha ;)

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