Sobigf + BGP

Mon Aug 25 00:17:49 UTC 2003

Stephen J. Wilcox <steve at telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
> My impression of most of these people is that they are very clever,
> and unless you post something here that is really brilliant thinking
> the chances are these guys can come up with most of the ideas
> themselves.

When Blaster hit back on Aug 11, I remembered an earlier NANOG post that I
saw:

Subject: Re: Microsoft.com attack?
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking the other day, wouldn't it be funny if there was a
> worm that had infected machines attack windowsupdate.microsoft.com so
> you couldn't patch? :)

Despite the windowsupdate.microsoft.com vs windowsupdate.com difference, the
paranoid side of me thinks that this was more than coincidental...

-Sounil