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Old 06-07-2003, 10:23 PM
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Wired has an interesting article about the Slammer Worm that brought the internet to it's knees. Scary stuff.

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Suddenly I'm religious.
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anyone that runs MSSQL, deserves it
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The problem is that much of the Internet's backbone and structure has MS SQL involved so whether or not you run it, it affects you.
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they should so switch to a unix-based db.
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There are holes in everything.
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true. but most hackers/virus-worm writers prefer to get into windows-based systems since most of them are unix/linux/open source fans
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Indeed!
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