Re: [Fwd: RE: Nimda]

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 11:15:02 PDT

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    Zot O'Connor wrote:
    
    >I have had 2 clients brought to a stop by this virus.  Usually the code
    >red part.
    >
    >One client had it sneak under the wire.  An external employee sent the
    >worm with 4 other attachement.  It was send minuted before the virus
    >updates were ready.
    >
    >I told hinm "Hey your a pioneer!"
    >
    >The other client runs, well, a honeypot in effect :)
    >
    You know, running an all-linux/immunix environment, none of this stuff 
    EVER affects us, other than net traffic getting really heavy.
    
    I'm not bragging, I'm ... ok, I'm bragging :-) But there is a really 
    easy way out of these problems.
    
    Crispin
    
    -- 
    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
    Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
    Security Hardened Linux Distribution:       http://immunix.org
    Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
    



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