Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dave Stewart wrote:
> At 10:28 PM 9/21/2006, you wrote:
>
> > > 2) how is this different from any other large worm outbreak thing
> >
> > It's not.
>
> Which makes it operational in which sense?
>
> I'm starting to think that these "alerts" need to be filed along with 
> the daily "OMG, evil people are taking over your computer if you 
> don't send this to at least 10 people" IMs.
>
> Paranoia has its place, but this ain't the place. 

The report is NOT paranoia. Several LARGE user ISPs suffer immensely from
this. Use this information if it is useful to you and you encounter the
same problems.

Thanks,

        Gadi.