RE: nixhelp #ukha

["K. C. Li" <li@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Dean Smith wrote:

> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-04.html

Indeed. This worm is one nasty piece of work. I have learnt from inside
sources that at least one major investment banking giant's entire
network
was brought down for practically the whole day today. I suspect many
companies that use Microsoft SQL server are in a similar situation.

> Popular rumour would currently suggest various bits of the Internet
are
> indeed suffering. May well cause the odd ISP inter-connect to
saturate
> though I've currently seen no 1st hand evidence.

We are a Linux shop so thankfully don't run any Microsoft products on
any
of our servers. We have added a firewall rule to count the number of
probing attempts at port 1434/UDP and the result was staggering. There
is
on average 1,000 hits per minute for that port at the moment.

Regards,

Kwong Li
li@xxxxxxx
Laser Business Systems Ltd.
http://www.laser.com

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