Was listening to JJJ today, and heard mention of the Code Red worm in the
hourly news...
Good points
- some kind of mention, any kind of mention
- over a million downloads of the patch
- the software vendor in question was mentioned by name
Bad points
- they called it a virus, not a worm
- they said it spreads by email downloads
- they didn't say it only affected [vendorname]'s software
Ah well, not a great result, you'd expect some mangling of the message
across the wire, and the general press wouldn't know a worm if it bit
them anyway. The only redeeming point was the tarring by association of a
certain monopolist.
e.
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