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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Internet Virus: Really, the vendors *are* paying attention.
Message-ID: <432@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 06:28:01 GMT
References: <76493@sun.uucp> <580@micropen> <426@auspex.UUCP> <47851@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In article <47851@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:

>We found several more serious bugs, as well as at
>least three ways to propogate the worm over UUCP (not even counting Peter
>Honeyman's stuff).

Oh good!!  Just a flipping *LOVELY* Thanksgiving present *THIS* is!  Now would
you mind telling us how us binary-only licensees not on spaf's magic list will
find out how to protect ourselves against *THIS* one?  Please don't forget that
not everyone runs HDB & not everyone has a box where the vendor even provides
an upgrade to HDB.  Please don't forget that there are *THOUSANDS* of sites
runing some form of UNIX on very small or personal computers where the system
administrator is a decent citizen deserving of entry to the information about
plugging holes but who might well not qualify for security mailing lists.  (A
few crackers have their own private Xenix box too, no doubt, alas.)
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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