NIMDA computer worm.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 18, 2001

Answers

Windows users who are running Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1, or IE 5.5 Service Pack 1, should download and install the patch available at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp

if they haven't already.

This fix is already included in Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2 and IE 5.5 Service Pack 2. Presumably they've fixed this vulnerability in IE 6 too, though it doesn't really say at that site.

-- Chicken Little (panic@forthebirds.net), September 19, 2001.