The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99494 Message #1984497
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
02-Mar-07 - 08:45 PM
Thread Name: Tech: New virus
Subject: RE: Tech: New virus
John (and kendall)
Some years ago, a worm went thru most of the Telstra Unix networked boxes - most people who were Sys Admins ran as 'root' for all their normal stuff... :-) far too clever to bother logging out and logging in as a normal user - which would have prevented the spread completely...