Sobig's Secondary Attack.

[Bart Bailey]

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Does it occur to you that not a lot happened because a lot of companies
took the warnings seriously and acted upon them?

I know personally that some companies, like IBM for instance, recognized,
and were dealing with, the issue from at least as far back as 1990 and very
probably earlier.

Yep, and the appropriate remedies (at least most of them) were
implemented before the public mass media even got hold of the story.

Similarly, today's SoBig-F panic has been about getting those 20 master
servers offline before things went into action. Last I heard, they had only
one left to deal with;

Someone just posted that they had ping responses from several on the
list, so they aren't all down.

if they succeeded, then the mass trojan download will not
be happening (at least for now, as unfortunately we gather that the virus
writer can update this list of servers, so it may turn into a cat and mouse
game.)

So, if those screaming out the warnings succeed in warning people and making
sure action is taken, and then because of that the sh*t doesn't hit the fan,
everyone then points fingers at them and says that they overreacted. It
seems to be that its an "any which way but lose" situation.

There are industry channels for notifications that serve, or should, the
purpose of glitch alerts, my comments were primarily based on what the
mass media has done with the story.
They were teasing it before every TV newscast yesterday.

 

[Bart Bailey]

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Possible, but I'd love to see a PC turn itself on without a power cord
attached

I'd like to be able to afford one,
a laptop that is <g>

 

[Julie Brandon]

Someone just posted that they had ping responses from several on the
list, so they aren't all down.

They could simply have been patched/cleaned (mind you, if I knew I was going
to be a target for such a thing, I wouldn't bother turning my computer on
for a good while, and would be seeking to change IP!)

There are industry channels for notifications that serve, or should, the
purpose of glitch alerts, my comments were primarily based on what the
mass media has done with the story.
They were teasing it before every TV newscast yesterday.

Yeah, fair enough, the mass media can tend to misrepresent things a tad.