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Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Thu Sep 21 23:51:06 2006 
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.