[LINK] Code Red (again!): call to lurking journos

From: Saliya Wimalaratne (saliya@hinet.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 08:47:03 EST

People,

"Code Red" has, of course, hit the news.

It would have been good to 'get it right' to begin with; but it's not too
late.

Here are two sound-bites that you can *and should* use when reporting on
this virus:

"Code Red ONLY affects Microsoft Windows machines running Microsoft
Internet Information Server."

and

"MOST home-users will not be running Microsoft Internet Information
Server, so they should not be at risk"

I haven't seen "Microsoft" or "IIS" mentioned in ANY of the news reports
about this virus, which can mean one of two things:

1) you don't know the truth
2) you're scared to tell the truth

- (1) has been removed from the list of options. Who's going to be a
*real* journalist ?

Regards,

Saliya

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