Re: Message from my ISP

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 01/26/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 26 Jan 2003 00:31:01 GMT

Melissa <Melissa@UPAlliance.orgDDD> writes:

]Damian Menscher <menscher+security@uiuc.edu> said, and I quote:

]> Melissa <Melissa@upalliance.orgddd> wrote:
]>>> Large portions of the Internet are suffering from a massive
]>>> denial-of-service type attack. It appears to be a worm,
]>>> attacking and infecting Microsoft SQL server.
]>> I wonder if the Iraqis are behind this kind of thing.

Probably the Koreans in alliance with the Libians.

]>> I met a computer security guy a few years ago, who told me that in the
]>> event of a war against the U.S.A., our own government had computer
]>> worms that could go right through any virus software and fry our hard
]>> drives, so they wouldn't fall into enemy hands.

They also intend to nuke every major US city so as to make sure that
they do not fall into enemy hands;-)

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