So called Gnutella-worm....

June 5, 2000 11:48 AM

So called Gnutella-worm.... So, I'm sure one or two of you have seen press coverage of the supposed spread of a set of vbs-worms, through the Gnutella community (Napster without a centralized server for those who don't know what it is). I have to agree with the Gnutella-folks statement, that this is more an exploit of windows and user-foolishness, than anything technically skilled. What's interesting to note is that it seems to be having a chilling effect...usually there's somewhere around 5,000 hosts, and 10 Terabytes of data online...today, there's barely 1100 hosts. I would have thought the average gnut-er was smarter than to fall for a vbs-worm.
posted by nomisxid (1 comment total)

i wonder who started the worm. maybe it was MCA. =)

at anyrate, this is just funny to me for some odd reason.
posted by sikk at 11:51 AM on June 5, 2000