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Old 08-21-2003, 02:02 PM  
MrPopup
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Should M$ be held financially responsible for damaging the national infrastructure?

Xbox = Good

Windows = Bad?

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<b>Microsoft Worm Crashes Nuclear Plant</b>
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767
- The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

<b>Virus shuts down passenger and freight train traffic</b>
http://www.csx.com/?fuseaction=compa...2&news_year=-1
- CSX Transportation's (CSXT) information technology systems experienced significant slowdowns early today after a computer virus infected the network. The cause was believed to be a worm virus similar to those that have infected the systems of other major companies and agencies in recent days.


<b>SoBig worm not slowing down yet</b>
- NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Businesses and other computer users haven't seen the worst of the SoBig worm, which may have caused an estimated $50 million in damage already, computer security experts said Thursday.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/21/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes
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