Re: Message from my ISP

From: Mike (michael.owen@hushmail.com)
Date: 01/26/03 

From: "Mike" <michael.owen@hushmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:26:10 -0000

"Melissa" <Melissa@UPAlliance.orgDDD> wrote in message
news:3e32c1d0$1_3@omega.dimensional.com...
> On 25 Jan 2003 at 4:09, Jawaid.Bazyar@foreThought.net wrote:
>
> > Dear Valued Customer,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > While the worm directly attacks Microsoft SQL server, the level of
> > traffic being generated by the worm is so huge that large-scale portions
> > of the Internet are basically unusable.
> ...
>
> I wonder if the Iraqis are behind this kind of thing.

More likely it was someone aged between 12-25, living in a Western nation.

> 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. Now with this new situation with
Iraq,
> it leaves me a little nervous about this kind of thing. He said the only
> way to totally prevent it from happening would be to keep your main
> computer off the internet. Can someone tell us more about that kind of
> thing?

Yes, it sounds impractical and silly. Did you need us to tell you that? 

--
Mike

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