[Fwd: Update on "Slammer" Worm]

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:07, George Toft wrote:
> Derek Neighbors wrote:
> [snip]
> > previously been made available, and (b) there was no data corruption on
> > customers' systems. The release of this worm is a criminal act, and we
> 
> So riddle me this: What if the next slammer (call it the Grand Slam),
> were to spread using the same mechanism, and use the "feature" of no
> password on the admin port to run a "drop table" command followed by a
> "drop database" followed by a "commit"???  
> 
> Scary.
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Are you suggesting that the same administrators that don't update
Windows aren't likely to do frequent backups?

Craig