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From: Sven van īt Veer (svenvip.br)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 06:49:54 CDT

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    Although I agree on the funny part, I would suppose that M$ has patched
    up itīs own servers ..

    >
    > Actually, a rather nasty thing to do, would have been to set the worm up
    > to attack www.microsoft.com. If my guess is right, that site uses the same
    > pipe as support.microsoft.com or windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Had the
    > person done this, it would have effectly used microsoft's own bug against
    > it, and would have caused a big problem: how are the people supposed to
    > obtain the patch if the site holding the patch gets hosed? It's a scarry
    > thought, but funny one: A DDOS by microsoft's own software against itself.
    >
    > - Lynn
    >
    >