As is my custom, whenever a major internet worm comes out, I try to have a brief informative update here on the fun I’ve had since I invariably have lots of fun when these things hit. In this case, it was a nice little 12 hr workday yesterday and definitely a lot of fun today. Sorry I can’t post more, but I’ll be working most of today. Here’s the quick rundown:

The original post to a security mailing list about the worm - ignore the time stamp, I sent it at about 4:22pm as we were in the middle of figuring out what to do.
My writeup on how to clean the worm.

Have fun.

Posted by Jordan on Tuesday, August 12th, 2003 at 10:50 am.