Re: [cobalt-users] worm attack

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:43 PM 9/19/2001, you wrote:
> le 19.9.2001 14:35, Larkin Cunningham à lcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
>
> > Would a symptom of this worm be lots of internet traffic simultaneously
> > going in and out of your client windows PC despite not doing anything that
> > should cause such traffic? I noticed the Trivial FTP executable (tftp.exe)
> > going mad on my windoze 2000BC
>
> Windows 2000BC, Is that Windows 2000 before Christ, after Windows
> Neanderthal Technology, this would sure make sense :-))
>
> If you installed all the services packs ( You know these 100 MB of patches
> for security bugs ), especially SP2 then you shouldn't have be infested by
> nimba, however if you didn't that you gentilly helped spreading around the
> virus.
>
> Just for info, so that everyone can have a laugh, the swiss Post, had their
> servers blocked by the virus :-))
> =======================================================================

This is not really true.  I have installed all the updates and then 
some.  There is a page at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/mpsa/start.asp
that will look at your windows2000 workstation and evaluate it for you.  It 
told me I needed 8 hotfixes.  They are not listed on the update page.  I 
have installed service packs 1 and 2.  There is another program to download 
and run on a Windows2000 server.  It told me I needed about a dozen 
hotfixes.  I now have them all, but I thought I did already.  I have been a 
tech for years, though not certified as an MSCE or the such.  I have built 
systems for years and I always thought the updates kept me current.  I am 
sure many others have the same thought.