[ale] Breaking News: A worm shut down computers runing Windows 2000, news at 11.... :-)

[Robert L. Harris]

  I know this work hit my company pretty hard today and alot of them are 
XP.  I was just on the phone with TiVo to ask some "I doubt it but I
wonder if my system can do X" questions.  The guy I talked with had some
answers from memory but the call started with a disclaimer that their
systems were mostly down from the worm.


Thus spake Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com):

> It's no longer in red at the top, but this article now exists:
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/16/computer.worm/index.html
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 18:44 -0400, H. A. Story wrote:
> > Yeah,  No link or related info on the CNN webpage.  What kind of FUD is 
> > this.  Wonder what my day is going to be like tomorrow..  I should call 
> > in sick.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > 
> > >Currently in red at the top of CCN.com:
> > >
> > >  BREAKING NEWS
> > >  A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software 
> > >  across the United States. More soon.
> > >
> > >
> > >Is that *really* "breaking news" even in 2005?
> > >
> > >-Jim P.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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:wq!
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