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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:02:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
To:        Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about MSblaster worm
Message-ID:  <20030814120208.O1513@njamn8or.no-ip.org>
In-Reply-To: <200308141843.h7EIhCtl000524@ice.nodomain>
References:  <200308141843.h7EIhCtl000524@ice.nodomain>

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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Dan Strick wrote:

> Recently I have seen a lot of newspaper articles warning about the
> new "MSblaster" worm.  They say that it uses a denial of service
> attack mode.  Once it installs itself on your system it causes the
> system to crash and makes it difficult for you to get any work done.
>
> In what way is this different from a normal Microsoft product?

The difference is that unlike a normal Micrsoft product, the virus
actually does something . . .

Cheers,

Viktor



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