>John, if you check bugtraq, a new, very virilent worm is about on 
>the internet ...

Not sure why you sent this to the whole list, but in any case ...

Yes, I know about the attack.  We have a very, very, good network and
security group at Purdue and they have clamped down on this already.

>...  I don't know if there is a patchfix from MS yet or not.  
>I think I saw it mentioned in one bugtraq message, but I wasn't 
>awake at the time I read it, sorry.

I normally throw away Microsoft related security reports since they tend
to fill my inbox and would never willingly run such a piece of crap,
but I found the CERT advisory in my deleted area:

  VU#370308 - http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308
  VU#399260 - http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/399260
  VU#484891 - http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484891

and the patch related information:

  CA-2002-22 - http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-22.html
  VU#370308 - http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308

  
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.asp

>Cheers, Gene

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu