Tuesday, August 12, 2003

W32/Blaster update

I paid a bit more attention to various news articles about the W32/Blaster worm. It turns out that besides trying to infect other computers in the local network, it also initiates a CP SYN flood denial-of-service attack against windowsupdate.com. Like I referenced earlier, although I may be using a computer/OS that only has a small share of the market, I can get my work done while remaining fairly confident that computer and internet security are taken seriously.

The Apple site has a wonderful tribute to the late Gregory Hines today. It probably won't stay up for long but it features Hines tap dancing in a white tux, black background, with a small Apple logo and the slogan "Think Different" in the upper right hand corner.

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