Re: A code red that could bring down the net?

From: Sven van īt Veer (svenat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 04:49:54 PDT

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    Although I agree on the funny part, I would suppose that M$ has patched 
up itīs own servers ..

> 
> Actually, a rather nasty thing to do, would have been to set the worm up
> to attack www.microsoft.com. If my guess is right, that site uses the same
> pipe as support.microsoft.com or windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Had the
> person done this, it would have effectly used microsoft's own bug against
> it, and would have caused a big problem: how are the people supposed to
> obtain the patch if the site holding the patch gets hosed? It's a scarry
> thought, but funny one: A DDOS by microsoft's own software against itself.
> 
> - Lynn
> 
>

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