[LINK] Code Red reporting in the popular news

[Eric Scheid]

Was listening to JJJ today, and heard mention of the Code Red worm in the 
hourly news...

Good points 
     - some kind of mention, any kind of mention
     - over a million downloads of the patch
     - the software vendor in question was mentioned by name

Bad points
     - they called it a virus, not a worm
     - they said it spreads by email downloads
     - they didn't say it only affected [vendorname]'s software

Ah well, not a great result, you'd expect some mangling of the message 
across the wire, and the general press wouldn't know a worm if it bit 
them anyway. The only redeeming point was the tarring by association of a 
certain monopolist.

e.

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