[60904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: some wide-scale airline reservations issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Butler)
Tue Aug 19 16:45:48 2003
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:31:46 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Sean Butler <sean@2sparrows.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030819155755.09045d50@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 04:01 PM 8/19/2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>sobig.f is REALLY making the rounds. I think its been effective as it
>plays on the public awareness of "some security hole" and "needed fixes
>from Microsoft." As the worm says, "Hi, I am from Microsoft, you need
>this patch" a greater than normal amount of people are suspending their
>judgement and clicking on it.
Hmm, the ones I have seen only say "See the attached file for details,"
nothing about MSFT.
/Sean
