Win 2K under attack
 

CNN, ABC News Computers Affected By Worm Targeting Windows 2000
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Computers at CNN's Atlanta offices have been
shut down because of a computer worm, the Cable News Network said.

The worm is also affecting computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
2000 at the New York Times newspaper and news network ABC in New York,
CNN said. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, CNN said. ABC is
owned by Walt Disney Co.

(CNN 8-16)

- To qoute Clarence Thomas

" yeah, Sowhat ?! "



David wrote:
CNN, ABC News Computers Affected By Worm Targeting Windows 2000
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Computers at CNN's Atlanta offices have been
shut down because of a computer worm, the Cable News Network said.

The worm is also affecting computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
2000 at the New York Times newspaper and news network ABC in New York,
CNN said. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, CNN said. ABC is
owned by Walt Disney Co.

(CNN 8-16)

If Hotlanta has been shut down,that's a good thing.
cuhulin

Screw windows.I use Opera and Firefox Mozilla browers.Of course I keep
my windows home SP2 updated regularly and I have Go Back too.I never
have any problems with my computer on Broad Band and webtv can not get
any viruses at all since webtv doesn't have a hard drive.
cuhulin

Jim wrote:

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:38:51 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


I have no worries. My stuff *stays* protected. I am rather surprised that
these major news outlets didn't learn their lesson waaaaaaaay back when
the "I Love You" bomb was loosed. In this day and age, if you don't
adequately control what goes through your firewall in either direction,
you're just being irresponsible...

Not to mention - why are they still running 2000? They should be on
XP SP2 by now.

Jim

No, Linux is the future.

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:38:51 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


On Tue 16 Aug 2005 06:21:51p, David wrote in message
:

CNN, ABC News Computers Affected By Worm Targeting Windows 2000
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Computers at CNN's Atlanta offices have been
shut down because of a computer worm, the Cable News Network said.

The worm is also affecting computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
2000 at the New York Times newspaper and news network ABC in New York,
CNN said. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, CNN said. ABC is
owned by Walt Disney Co.

(CNN 8-16)



I have no worries. My stuff *stays* protected. I am rather surprised that
these major news outlets didn't learn their lesson waaaaaaaay back when the
"I Love You" bomb was loosed. In this day and age, if you don't adequately
control what goes through your firewall in either direction, you're just
being irresponsible...

-=jd=-
Kevin Mitnick thinks people brought it into the affected intranets on
their notebook computers.

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:25:51 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:45:22 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

No, Linux is the future.

For some servers, perhaps. Not on the desktop. OS X is much better
desktop than Linux will ever be.


Apparently we will never know if that's really so. Now that Apple
has become a "me too" company by moving entirely to Intel processors,
it will have to face the same multitude of hardware types that
Microsoft has had to face in its attempts to keep Windows functional.

And Apple has always tightly controlled the hardware on which its
software was run, right up until this year. Signs are that Apple is
going to attempt to maintain that tight hardware control, and that's a
recipe for failure. OS X is already "in the wild" and is being run on
generic beige Intel boxes, in spite of Apple's efforts to control it.

OS X has just been exposed to a much larger hardware world, and it
looks right now that, thanks to Apple, it is going to sink instead of
swim. In that case, OS X will never even get a chance to be a
contender.

Llllloyd

Just because webtv doesn't have a hard drive (wimmins) doesn't mean I
dont :{) Haw Haw Haw.
cuhulin

Linux can't do as much as windows can.If I ever get ready to buy an
Apple/Mac computer,I think I will buy a G4 from www.sunrem.com
webtv wouldn't have existed in the first place if it wasen't for
Apple,but that is another story in a land far,far away.
cuhulin

My Velocity Micro www.velocitymicro.com ProMagix tower computer
(screw them litlte bitty pretend "computers",I like big ass tower
computers with lots of room in them) is Navy blue/grey in color and it
has a big window on one side of it.I cast my eyeballs at it and I can
see it working.I can use webtv and my computer at the same time.Some
things,computers can't do that webtv can do and vice versa.I got y'all
bet by a country mile.
cuhulin

"Jim" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:38:51 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


I have no worries. My stuff *stays* protected. I am rather surprised that
these major news outlets didn't learn their lesson waaaaaaaay back when
the
"I Love You" bomb was loosed. In this day and age, if you don't
adequately
control what goes through your firewall in either direction, you're just
being irresponsible...

Not to mention - why are they still running 2000? They should be on
XP SP2 by now.

Jim

Its probably their Win2000 servers being hit. I would hope their desktops
are XP. Win2000 went out of mainline support in June.

More info:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165955,00.html

"Jim" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:38:51 GMT, "-=jd=-"

wrote:


I have no worries. My stuff *stays* protected. I am rather
surprised that
these major news outlets didn't learn their lesson waaaaaaaay back
when the
"I Love You" bomb was loosed. In this day and age, if you don't
adequately
control what goes through your firewall in either direction, you're
just
being irresponsible...

Not to mention - why are they still running 2000? They should be
on
XP SP2 by now.

Odds are great that money is the issue.

--Mike L.

Michael Lawson wrote:

Odds are great that money is the issue.


It is certainly one issue. then you have the interruptions of
replacing equipment, retraining and not knowing if the new software is
as stable as what you are already running. Some businesses stuck with
Win 95, till they had no choice because they had too many computers
dying of old age. They buy a site license for their OS, and its a lot
easier to keep everyone happy if all the computers appear to be the
same.

--
Link to my "Computers for disabled Veterans" project website deleted
after threats were telephoned to my church.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

It doesn't cost all that much money to upgrade.My Velocity Micro tower
computer came with Windows Home Edition and the guys at
www.velocitymicro.com professionly tweaked it so that it works
better.I am fixin to head on over to the Goodwill store now and then
head on over to the foodstore because I forget to buy a jar of BAMA
mayonaise the last time I was at the foodstore,I usually do forget
something.
cuhulin

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:55:31 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


Nothing jacks into our network unless it is our hardware and it strictly
adheres to an approved configuration. That means, not only is the network
protected, each individual machine is protected. In any event, it matters
not whether it's m$oft, *nix or OS# -- know what needs to be done, and then
*do* it. We haven't had any problems, but then again, ours probably ranks
among the most hardened networks...

-=jd=-
Stop. You're getting me all hot.

"Jim" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:57:20 -0400, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Not to mention - why are they still running 2000? They should
be
on
XP SP2 by now.

Odds are great that money is the issue.

Odds are greater that incompetence is the issue.

Never assign to incompetence that you can't also
assign to regulations. I've seen in the past some
really outdated software still hang around because
of governmental regulations requiring the data that
the software provides be accessable for XX number
of years. Of course, the outdated software runs
on outdated hardware, so the outdated hardware
loiters around forever.

--Mike L.