[66866] in North American Network Operators' Group
OT: Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Jan 28 12:09:09 2004
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:02:40 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0401281131300.1943-100000@ordinaryworld.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It's not completely the fault of anything except the end-user. It's like
the Jimmy Buffet song says:
Evolution is mean, there's no dumbass vaccine
scott
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Dave Temkin wrote:
: >>> : They rate of it is quite surprising. By the description, the trick
: >>> : method of infection does not seem all that different than past worms
: >>> : viri. Makes me wonder how many people in a room would reach into
: >> : their purse/pocket on hearing, "Wallet inspector"
: >>>
: >>> Every single person that still opens these damn attachments! :-(
: >
: >IN WINDOWS!
:
: So? Had the virii been an application compiled for RedHat and
: everyone ran RedHat instead of Windows and they downloaded it using
: Evolution and double clicked on it, it would suddenly be RH's fault
: instead of MIcrosoft's? Or is it sendmail's fault because it was
: listening on port 25 and allowed the worm to connect to it? Newsflash:
: Even those using Netscape Mail, Lotus Notes, etc. on the PC were still
: potentially infected due to the nesting of the virii.
:
: The worm was not spread through any vulnerability in the operating system,
: unlike NIMDA/SQLSlammer/etc. This worm was propogated through pure user stupidity, and
: that'll follow any operating system that Dell/Gateway pre-installs for
: them. If everyone wants to flame MS, at least do it in a way that doesn't
: show your own ignorance.
:
:
: -Dave
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