Billy and his backdoor...

[Michael Schuermann]

ummm, I doubt it, because the worm has nothing to do with ActiveX.... if
you've looked at how the worm transmits itself, you'd see that they could
not be related at all. Who knows why such an error message was received from
WindowsUpdate.com on Saturday, but it wouldn't have been this worm.

Make sure you know your facts before spreading rumors...

Michael Schuermann

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Brian Densmore
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:10 PM
To: KCLUG (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Billy and his backdoor...

Also, for those that didn't catch it. Someone one this list or kulua pointed
out a unsafe activeX message from the update sight on 
Saturday. Which according to the news was because the Windows sight got
infected with the worm which the patch is supposed to fix. Now how negligent
can these folks at M$ be? They have been spouting for weeks that people need
to apply the patch, but they didn't even apply the patch to the server
serving up the patch!?!??!?!?!?!??!? Now that's ***LAME***. roflmao

Brian