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Post by Link on Aug 17, 2005 19:13:24 GMT -5
CNN Gets Hit By Worm Posted by Tom Warren on 17 Aug 2005 - 03:15 Yes folks, live on-air now you can watch several CNN news correspondents reporting that their computers across the network have been infected by a new Virus. A variant of Rbot Worm, backpacking off the recent Zotop virus seems to be causing damage to CNN's systems. The amusing part is that CNN have Dave Perry (Trend Micro) on-air advising users to update to XPSP2/latest virus definitions when CNN have clearly forgotten to patch their systems correctly. Microsoft issued a patch on August 9th patching up a remote code execution vulnerability. It has taken CNN 6 days to patch their systems - oops. A funny quote a few moments ago, "if there's any hackers listening, please stop - we're not impressed" whilst the CNN reporter advised home users to shut down their computers. Then Mr Perry said users of "Windows 97, 98, 99" would be affected - I'm sure they would be if Microsoft actually retailed Windows 97 or 99. Microsoft have responded with the fact a patch is available and that the worm in question is low impact. CNN machines run Windows 2000 and are currently shutting down and looping. Here's one for CNN, if there's any of your NTserver admins reading this, patch up in future. ----------------------------------------------- Source
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Post by Mephistopheles on Aug 17, 2005 22:16:12 GMT -5
I heard it in "CNN en español", they said that computers with Windows 2000 had a particular vulnerability which was discovered and posted on the internet, giving hackers a hand in making a virus right? They also said that more than 150 news companies got troubled by this virus, a specialist said: "News industries are particularly vulnerable to this kind of virus because they make a huge local area network with all their computers, if the virus gets into one of them, the rest are doomed because the virus is programmed to do that". They also said that Microsoft had responded with the patch but they avoided the part which said why they didn't updated the patch, LOL.
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Post by Calumon on Sept 1, 2005 17:56:08 GMT -5
[glow=purple,5,300] LOL, this is very funny. They should learn to update their computers. I found a video. Click here to watch it.[/glow]
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