This is an ‘html-only’ version of Scribblings with no database behind it. This means it is not possible to search it. I am working on a new version with which I am hoping to eventually put back into the main site. The new version is here but please note that there is no link directly back to the main site.
Thursday, 6th May 2004
Fear of Sasser
We’ve had no Internet connection at work for the past two days and I’ve been wondering whether they might have taken it down deliberately in fear of the Sasser worm. I’ve had no info on this but then I haven’t asked for any.
The network is, of course, entirely composed of Windows XP boxes run by (you guessed it) yet more Microsoft stuff. If it is down because of fear of Sasser then what a sad comment this makes about the usefulness of Microsoft Windows as a network platform.
My understanding is that the Sasser worm is able to infect Windows boxes without any intervention by the user; all you have to do is plug the machine in and as soon as Sasser finds it it will infect it. For over-stretched IT departments the only way to protect the network, in the short term, is to take it offline.
Brilliant. What lunatic designed a platform which was completely open to every passing virus?
An apology
Since moving the site to a new server Scribblings is not as easy to find your way around as it used to be. It used to depend on a script and a database on the server but is currently served as ‘flat html’.
I have some ideas about how to make it a bit easier but they depend on writing another script. I hope to get around to it ‘eventually’.
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