Worm Virus

[sft42]

Does anyone have any info on the worm that's doing the rounds at the moment and is causing havoc?? I have heard that apparently all of South sorea was offline yesterday for a good few hours and Bank of Americas ATM's weren't working but why would an internet virus effect ATM's...can anyone confirm or deny this?

[lisaj]

since it'd be STUPID for a bank to run its ATMs over the Internet for what would be only a minimal cost saving, I'd say any problem with those was TOTALLY unrelated to any worm on the Net. All I've seen of any disruption is the BBC News site not working too well. Apparently it was a root DNS hack, but AFAIK they don't run MSSQL, which is also apparently the cause of the problem.

[rinkytink]

New Worm: W32.Slammer A computer worm was released into the Internet this past Friday night that floods the network with excessive network traffic. The computer worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Desktop Engine 2000. There are details of a MS security bullitin that addresses the issue here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.
asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-061.asp

[ThePuss]

Some ATMS DEFINITELY use NT4 - I know cos my card has been stuck in one when the Blue Screen of Death came up and it rebooted (and needless to say kept the card!) - and while I agree "It'd be stupid to run these things over the Internet" having had thios experience, I have to say it wouldn't surprise me if some banks did silly things like this!

[mikewith]

All the Disney and associated sites - ESPN etc -- were down and/or judderingly slow yesterday. Tee hee!

[GeordieSteve]

Afraid not lisaj: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129330,00.
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