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["Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net>]

i stocked up on beer just in case.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David R.Matusiak [mailto:dave AT matusiak.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:16 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] Experts ponder coming Blaster attack
> 
> 
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/14/HNblasterattack_1.html
> 
> "While Internet users and corporations dig out from the havoc 
> caused by 
> the new W32.Blaster Internet worm, security experts are questioning 
> whether a massive denial of service attack from infected machines, 
> scheduled for Saturday, will succeed."
> 
> "The machines will begin their attack at 12:00 a.m. local time, with 
> each infected computer judging the time by consulting its system 
> clock... That will create a cascading attack that will cross 
> the globe 
> as clocks in each time zone roll over to the new day...  Once 
> launched, 
> the attack will continue, unabated, through the end of December, then 
> begin again on January 16, 2004..."
> --
> 
> Wow.  Is your machine hosed?  Are you prepared?
> 
> HAVE YOU BOUGHT MILK, EGGS, AND CINNAMON YET?!?!?!
> 
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