Worms versus Bots

Tue May 4 08:19:17 UTC 2004

Until recently, I believe that Microsoft's download servers were managed by
Akamai.

-- 
William S. Duncanson
caesar at starkreality.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Edward B. Dreger
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:23
> To: Michel Py
> Cc: william(at)elan.net; Rob Thomas; NANOG
> Subject: RE: Worms versus Bots
> 
> 
> MP> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:53:50 -0700
> MP> From: Michel Py
> 
> 
> MP> > but in our ISP office I setup new win2000 servers and first
> MP> > thing I do is download all the patches. I've yet to see the
> MP> > server get infected in the 20-30 minutes it takes to finish
> MP>
> MP> It can happen in 5 or 10 minutes (I've seen it) but only if
> MP> all of the following conditions are met simultaneously:
> 
> I've not confirmed, but a client told us that some MS patches are
> carried by Akamai.
> 
> 
> Eddy
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