I read a news piece that indicated that it was spread through mp3 files
and shared Office 2004 files from Limewire.  I'm just a little
concerned because no one else seems to be having problems now and I'm
wondering if I've got something.

-jc

On Jun 19, 2004, at 9:01 PM, Becker, Dan wrote:

> Yes. It was a denial of service attack that crippled the Akamai DNS
> name servers on the internet backbone. Basically any website for which
> Akamai was responsible for providing services for resolving the IP
> address was unreachable (for instance, www.apple.com is actually
> 207.69.188.185).
>
> It was not a Mac problem, except insofar as being a Mac user you were
> not able to reach sites that serve your needs as a Mac user. A PC user
> would not have been able to reach them either.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   John Callan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Sat 6/19/2004 8:29 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Cc:
> Subject:             [BP] Mac Pinheads?
> Is anyone else having trouble with Apple, Akamai and Virex web sites?
> Does anyone know if this is related to the Trojan Horse that attacked
> Akamai last Tuesday?
>
> -jc
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2004, at 5:55 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/19/2004 1:29:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> I shall toil to do better in the future.
>> That's all we ask.
>>
>> Ralph
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