> Okay I may be wrong on this, but I read somewhere that the FBI is
> actually trying to contact the owners of 6000 computers to inform them
> that they have been infected. Wouldn't this kind of "good worm" screw
> that up? And I can't believe after all this media hype and after all
> these advisories and discussions, that there are still some people out
> there that aren't aware that their system is infected. But I'm sure it
> will get better...even NT admins run windozeupdate from time to time,
> which I heard patches the bug. Just my $0.02 :-D
Unfortunately, all the world's not the USA (much to the chagrin of many
of my fellow citizens, it seems). Also, there are many, many, many
clueless admins out there; anybody that has to deal with script kiddies
knows just how often Korean (for instance) hosts are broken into and used
for all sorts of nefarious purposes. 90% of the time, I'm unable to even
report spam to the open relays in that country, because not only is
postmaster@ not even present, the contacts listed in whois.nic.or.kr just
point into never-never land. I fear we will never see the end of this
particular problem :/
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch_at_mit.edu>
Received on Sep 07 2001
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