Implement a four-layer virus prevention strategy
TechRepublic: Implement a four-layer virus prevention strategy
Code Red bug hits Microsoft security update site
Code Red bug hits Microsoft security update site. The Register Jul 20 2001 9:06PM ET [Computer security news]
Anti-virus software vendors warn against Sircam
Anti-virus software vendors warn against Sircam. IDG Jul 20 2001 4:08PM ET [Computer security news]
Harvard University and 3 Publishers Develop Experimental Online Archive
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Harvard University and 3 Publishers Develop Experimental Online Archive. While finding long-term solutions to archiving text presents more modest problems, archiving the other objects that electronic journals increasingly contain presents a much greater challenge. These include sound and video files, computer simulations and computer data sets. [Tomalak’s Realm]
New Worm Keeps Them Guessing
New Worm Keeps Them Guessing. A new e-mail infection is spreading fast across the globe — probably faster than anything since Anna K. So fast in fact, the antivirus companies can’t agree on what it does. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Linux: Tech Support Nightmare
Linux: Tech Support Nightmare. There’s almost never-ending debate about the chances of success for the Linux OS in relation to Windows but one point I rarely see discussed is the simple fact that Linux, as it stands, is almost unsupportable. [kuro5hin.org]
IIS virus triggers Red alert
IIS virus triggers Red alert. VNU Jul 18 2001 5:16PM ET
A worm bearing strong similarities to the sadmind virus, which hit over 9000 IIS websites back in May, has been doing the rounds, exploiting a vulnerability which is over a month old.
The worm exploits a known buffer overflow vulnerability – an ISAPI extension in the Index Server of Windows 2000 and XP beta – for which Microsoft released a patch in June that it believed had fixed the problem.
