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Old 09-20-2001, 02:50 AM   #16
Memnoch
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Join Date: February 28, 2001
Location: Boston/Sydney
Posts: 11,771
All my access to international (non-Australia sites is very slow) at the moment. Here's an excerpt from an email sent by my ISP:


Dear Telstra BigPond(TM) member,

Telstra is alerting you to be wary of a fast-spreading worm. All Internet
users, including BigPond members, may experience delays when surfing
affected Web sites due to increased Internet traffic.

Telstra emphasises that the worm has not originated in its network. Nor is
Telstra responsible for the spreading of this worm on any of its
telecommunications networks.

The worm, called W32.Nimda, appears as a blank message with an attachment
called 'readme.exe' or 'admin.dll'.

Nimda spreads through email and searches for shared network drives, seeking
unpatched or vulnerable Microsoft Web servers (IIS or Internet Information
Services), overloading them with Internet traffic.

The worm harvests email addresses from address books and sends itself to
all addresses as an attachment called readme.exe or admin.dll.

Please delete any emails you receive with the readme.exe or admin.dll
attachments and update your virus definitions to ensure that your system is
protected.


Of course, this could just be an excuse for their crap service...

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