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. George