[LUAU] Millenium Worm

[George Toft]

Mike Ballon wrote:
> 
> What exactly did it attack that was RedHat specific?  There have been fixes
> to release any security flaws that were release in the base 5.2 release so
> I'm curious.  Did it attack a known problem that was not patched from the
> base install or did it find another way in?

I still don't know how it got in, but when it was attacking
the computers on my LAN (SuSE, SunOS, and Win95), it did not
get into any of them.

I suspect some package was not up to speed, like Rob pointed out.

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