[92467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Thu Sep 21 23:58:10 2006
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:46:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Dave Stewart <dbs@dbscom.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060921233416.029a0450@dbscom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dave Stewart wrote:
>
> At 10:28 PM 9/21/2006, you wrote:
>
> > > 2) how is this different from any other large worm outbreak thing
> >
> >It's not.
>
> Which makes it operational in which sense?
>
> I'm starting to think that these "alerts" need to be filed along with
> the daily "OMG, evil people are taking over your computer if you
> don't send this to at least 10 people" IMs.
>
> Paranoia has its place, but this ain't the place.
>
The report is NOT paranoia. Several LARGE user ISPs suffer immensely from
this. Use this information if it is useful to you and you encounter the
same problems.
Thanks,
Gadi.
