I heard that the web was slow today.

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Author: James Bunnell
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Subject: I heard that the web was slow today.
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 03:22, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> Yep - thanks to a 6 month old known MS SQL exploit. God Bless Microsoft.
> No, really - they need it. :)
>
> Tell me, is there even one major or minor DoS attack on the internet
> bringing zone servers and mega-networks to their knees that can *not* be
> traced back to Microsoft exploits? IMHO, It would seem MS weaknesses
> have cost Internet servers and users billions of dollars collectively,
> while MS laughs all the way to the bank, totally beyond liability...
>
> "The IT didn't patch the patch", "They left MS on the Trusted list",
> "The user didn't have tomorrows virus protection", "That's a feature",
> and "Oh crap" are probably commonly heard in the Microsoft offices. :)
>
> Grimace,
> Mike
>


I would not blame MS on this one. They did release a patch 6 months ago.
It is not their fault that IT cannot apply it. Common sense should
dictate this one.