How do I learn operator overriding?
John Roth
newsgroups at jhrothjr.com
Fri Sep 19 16:26:42 EDT 2003
"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
news:3F6B6128.49680D2 at alcyone.com...
> John Roth wrote:
>
> > A new mass mailer worm hit the net at about 9:00 PM EST last night
> > (at least, that's when I started getting the spam from it.) It seems
> > to be
> > using a really old hole in Windows, meaning that if you've kept up to
> > date
> > with your patches, you should be safe from infection.
>
> Being completely safe from infection doesn't mean that you won't get
> hammered by the spam the worms generate. All you need to be is in the
> address book of someone whose machine was compromised. (My machines
> don't run Windows, so they certainly haven't bee compromised by a
> Windows worm, but I'm seeing tremendous spam loads nevertheless.)
I did say *infection*.
John Roth
>
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