{"id":400,"date":"2003-01-25T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","slug":"another-internet-worm-thanks-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Another Internet Worm, thanks to Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/internet\/01\/25\/internet.attack.ap\/index.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">report<\/a> provides some information about a worm which affected Internet traffic Saturday morning, and for the geeks, McAfee provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/vil.nai.com\/vil\/content\/v_99992.htm\" Target=\"Offsite\">technical report<\/a>. Although I avoid Microsoft software like the plague that it is, some of my computers at work (including a couple providing back-end hosting for many of the images displayed on this site) are surrounded by Microsoft-infected machines, and were off the air for much of Saturday when network technicians had to isolate large segments of campus in an attempt to contain the disease. So I&#8217;m taking this one personally. The CNN report says &#8220;The latest attack was likely to revive debate within the technology industry about the need for an Internet-wide monitoring center, which the Bush administration has proposed.&#8221;  I think it would be better to revive debate about the quality of Microsoft software and the wisdom of allowing such a grossly incompetent and negligent corporation to have such an impact on all of us.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN report provides some information about a worm which affected Internet traffic Saturday morning, and for the geeks, McAfee provides a technical report. Although I avoid Microsoft software like the plague that it is, some of my computers at work (including a couple providing back-end hosting for many of the images displayed on this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=400\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Internet Worm, thanks to Microsoft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}