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Re: AARGH READ THIS! Re: Network.vbs worm- serious threat to LANs

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From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:00

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JRS:  In article <38C55B9D.4BA9@sundialservices.com> of Tue, 7 Mar 2000
12:43:17 in news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc, Sundial Services
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>Bob Dalton wrote:
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>Aargh!
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>> Recently due to an unknown, to us, security hole in Win98 our system
>> received a self replicating "network.vbs" worm via the Internet. Since this
>> worm is not a virus it defeated all our standard security measures (ie;
>> ...

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From: Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: **AARGH READ THIS!** Re: Network.vbs worm- serious threat to LANs
Date: 2000/03/07
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