[NTLUG:Discuss] New IIS Virus

[Josh Miller]

Not confirmed that it is the case, but with my fathers interest in learning 
webpages, I installed the patch Ms recomends for the first worm.  after that 
time he has been having several problems with dial-up.
It could be argued that no one with dial up needs the web server, but then 
you could argue they don't need MS. But it is a plausable the patch had this 
side effect.


>Also, there is a small chance that someone has failed to install the
>Microsoft patch for some very good reason:
>
>   1) It could be that the patch has some nasty side-effect that prevents
>      this machine from fulfilling it's job - so it's owner has chosen not
>      to install it.  Given the poor overall quality of Microsoft's work, 
>it
>      seems very possible that installing a new patch would break something
>      else.  If that were the case then your "benign" virus could turn out 
>to
>      cause vast financial damage to someone - worse than the original 
>virus.



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