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windowsupdate hit with code red worm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher McCrory)
Thu Jul 19 20:48:15 2001

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:43:19 -0700
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Hello...

I was refered to the windowsupdate site (from a /. post) and did indead 
see the, IIRC, "http://www.worm.com ... hacked by chinese" web site.

http://www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

Shouldn't the server that updates all the win32 machines be updated also?


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