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----- Original Message -----
From: "profitok" <profitok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <wheelsinthesky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<ntt-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: [RT] Computer Worm Cripples Corporate Networks Worldwide [This
could be reason for GAP DOWN OPEN I SEE ???]
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> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:25 AM
> Subject: 01/25 5:57P (DJ) =DJ Computer Worm Cripples Corporate
Networks
> Worldwide [This could be reason for GAP DOWN OPEN I SEE ???]
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 01/25 5:57P (DJ) =DJ Computer Worm Cripples Corporate Networks
Worldwide
> > Story 0157 (MSFT, US5949181045, I/SOF, I/XGTI, I/XISL, I/XNQ1,
I/XSP5...)
> > By Riva Richmond
> > OF DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
> >
> > NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A computer worm spreading rapidly across the
> global
> > Internet Saturday infected by midday an estimated 200,000 Internet
servers
> > running Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) SQL software.
> > First reports of the worm, dubbed "Slammer" by antivirus experts,
> appeared
> > at around midnight EST (0500 GMT) in the U.S.
> > The worm a rogue computer program that spreads of
> > its own accord is moving server to server, infecting large
corporate
> > networks in the U.S., Europe and Asia with incredible speed,
reportedly
> > even
> > slowing the movement of data across the Internet itself.
> > "At this point and time, it could be neck-and-neck with Code Red
or a
> > little
> > behind it," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the Antivirus
> Emergency
> > Response Team at Network Associates Inc. (NET), referring to a
devastating
> > worm that infected Microsoft IIS servers in the summer of 2001.
> > "Most of our reports are from Fortune 100 companies in the U.S.,"
> > including
> > telecommunications companies and banks, Gullotto said. "All of them
are
> > reporting they've been hit quite heavily."
> > Slammer doesn't do anything malicious to computer networks it
> penetrates.
> > But its ongoing spread has, alone, wreaked havoc among corporate
networks
> > and
> > caused some DSL and Voice-Over-IP services to shut down, according
to
> > Gullotto.
> > The worm attacks servers using SQL software that has a particular
flaw,
> > for
> > which Microsoft has provided a fix since July 24, 2002. Once a
server is
> > infected, it starts probing the Internet for other vulnerable
servers
> within
> > just a few seconds. Gullotto predicted that all vulnerable servers
> > connected
> > to the Internet could become infected within 24 to 48 hours.
> > Servers that have been either patched or fitted with SQL service
pack 3,
> > which rolls up multiple product fixes and was released by Microsoft
on
> Jan.
> > 17, aren't vulnerable to the worm. Network Associates is urging
network
> > operators to take all SQL servers off-line and apply the service
pack
> > immediately. Microsoft officials couldn't immediately be reached for
> > comment.
> > That the worm hit on a weekend may have been a stroke of luck,
since
> > technology workers can handle the crisis while corporate network use
is
> > light.
> > But Gullotto warned that on Monday, he doesn't think it's going to
be
> > "business as usual, and it's not going to go away so easily." With
so many
> > servers affected, it will take a considerable amount of time to
update
> them
> > all, he said.
> >
> > -By Riva Richmond, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5670;
> > riva.richmond@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > (END) Dow Jones Newswires
> > 01-25-03 1757ET
> > Story 0170 =DJ Computer Worm -2: Microsoft Calling Customers To Help
> > Reached later Saturday, Microsoft Director of Security Assurance
Steve
> > Lipner said that the company has been proactively calling customers
> running
> > its databased-server software all day to help them respond to the
crisis.
> > Microsoft is also taking calls on its security-support phone line
and
> > providing patch information on its web site
(www.microsoft.com/security).
> > "We're working with customers to insure that they are protected by
> helping
> > them plan or roll out the patches or recent service pack, as
appropriate,"
> > Lipner said, adding Microsoft provides virus-recovery support to
customers
> > for
> > free.
> >
> > -By Riva Richmond, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5670;
> > riva.richmond@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > (END) Dow Jones Newswires
> > 01-25-03 1938ET
> > Additional Codes ( I/XSTX, N/DJIN, N/DJN, N/CNW, N/DJS, N/DJSS,
N/DJWB,
> > N/DJWI, N/NET, N/WEI, M/NND, M/TEC, R/EU, R/NME, R/PRM, R/US, R/USW,
R/WA)
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