Re: new virus

From: Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] (jmaltz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/13/03 

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:54:57 -0400

No.

The point of the virus is to be irritating - and it is.

As for turning a certain date. This is true, but it will "only" DDoS
WindowsUpdate so it can't be reached - not hack it and put up fake patches 

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"Andy" <avisley@msn.com> wrote in message
news:0ecb01c3619d$d2a2cbf0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Is the purpose of the new virus to use all the machines
> that don't have the virus cleaned off of them turn on a
> certin date and attack the Microsoft critical update
> sites and take them over and push junk critical updates
> down to the users?
>
> ???
>
> This will be real bad.

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