North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names (kill this thread)
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > > >> There is a current on-going Internet emergency: a critical 0day > >> vulnerability currently exploited in the wild threatens numerous > >> desktop > >> systems which are being compromised and turned into bots, > > I feel very strongly that this is just > yet-another-Windows-vulnerability. > > If I wanted to read about Windows vulnerabilities, then I would be > subscribed to whatever list that is. > > As such, it really has no place on nanog. > > I don't want to have this list clogged every time some moron has his > Windows 2000 / IIS v5.x site hacked. > > Further, you are suggesting that everyone else pay the freight for what > are Microsoft's security problems. > > This "Internet Emergency" doesn't appear to be a problem on > Linux/OSX/Solaris; nor have I read about Cisco IOS or CatOS, or > Juniper's OS having problems either. > > I actually signed up to post instead of just lurking, specifically to > ask you all to kill this thread. > > If the list feels otherwise, and that it is of interest and within > nanog guidelines, then I acquiesce, respecting the greater wisdom of > the list. You do realize this post is not about Microsoft or IE 0days, right? Gadi. > > --Patrick >
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