Well, Nimda played upon the fact that lazy admins didn't install previous
security patches.  Those patches had been available for some time (both the
IIS and the IE patches).  



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:41 PM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG] NIMDA, patches and time lines?


http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2816490,00.html

Even if your IIS server was patched did NIMDA still effect it? I thought it
took
48hrs for MS to come out with a patch to "fix" the NIMDA virus.

You're saying, what does this have to with Linux?

I want to make sure I tell clients the facts about NIMDA and IIS so when I
recommend Linux and Apache, they know I'm being honest.
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