> Okay I may be wrong on this, but I read somewhere that the FBI is > actually trying to contact the owners of 6000 computers to inform them > that they have been infected. Wouldn't this kind of "good worm" screw > that up? And I can't believe after all this media hype and after all > these advisories and discussions, that there are still some people out > there that aren't aware that their system is infected. But I'm sure it > will get better...even NT admins run windozeupdate from time to time, > which I heard patches the bug. Just my $0.02 :-D Unfortunately, all the world's not the USA (much to the chagrin of many of my fellow citizens, it seems). Also, there are many, many, many clueless admins out there; anybody that has to deal with script kiddies knows just how often Korean (for instance) hosts are broken into and used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. 90% of the time, I'm unable to even report spam to the open relays in that country, because not only is postmaster@ not even present, the contacts listed in whois.nic.or.kr just point into never-never land. I fear we will never see the end of this particular problem :/ -- Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitchat_private>
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