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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (57887)	5/8/2001 12:50:08 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Worm exploits Solaris to attack sites sadmind/IIS targets Microsoft’s Internet Information Server By Will Knight ZDNET May 8 — U.S.-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warned today of a new computer worm that exploits vulnerabilities in common Internet server software to help it automatically deface Web pages. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) price change $71.03 -0.35 Add this stock to your MSNBC homepage Data: MSN MoneyCentral Investor and S&P Comstock 20 min.delay. DUBBED THE SADMIND/IIS — after the exploits used — the worm targets computers running Sun’s Unix-based operating system Solaris to attack insecure versions of Microsoft’s Web server Internet Information Server (IIS). (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.) The worm exploits a two-year-old vulnerability in Solaris systems and then installs software which in turn attacks servers running Microsoft’s IIS software that have not been updated with a patch to fix a seven-month old security hole... msnbc.com