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Subject: Re: New worm?
From: Matthew R. Potter (mpotterATPCO.COM)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 14:47:30 CDT

We were generally unscathed here. I have my PC people disable the ability
to run .vbs on the Win 98 machines here. I think that one proactive step
saved me TONS of work. A few silly souls here opened attachments and got
hit, but they for the most part were not running outlook so it could not
further spread. I think maybe 20 out of 1000 machines here. And with a
little creative rulesets in sendmail.cf and a perls cript I was able to
purge any ones coming in or on the mail server.

Now the FBI/NPIC is saying 100 million dollars in damage. Uhh arent they
accountants over there? Where are they getting this figure? Seems like a
little panic to me. Yeah it;s a pain but how could they(or anyone) have
prevented this?

Matt