[PLUG] Microsoft sells Nimda infested software

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jun 15 05:05:51 UTC 2002


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:

> update Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean 
> developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net 
> that carried the virus, the company acknowledged Friday.

  Well, that's OK. The only Korean export appears to be spam in any case.
 
> Microsoft's flagship developer tools picked up the digital pest when a 
> third-party company translated the program into Korean, said Christopher 
> Flores, lead product manager for Visual Studio .Net. Flores stressed that no 
> other foreign-language versions of the program were found to carry the worm, 
> and he said the worm had not actually executed on any developers' systems. ...

   ... as far as they will admit.

  Can we now say that the Nimda virus is Microsoft certified and officially
accepted for their latest OSes?

Rich





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