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The attack sought to exploit a software flaw discovered by researchers in July 2002 that permits hackers to seize control of corporate database servers. Microsoft deemed the flaw to be critical and offered a free repairing patch, but it was impossible to know how many computer administrators applied the fix.

AOL had no problem.

http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Flash/AL20030125.html

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Verizon did, I called around noon about a bill and they had been down for 8 hrs. Sprint was down also; I overheard a salesperson at Walmart complaining via phone that he had four customers he was trying to activate phones for and was dead in the water. This was around 2p my time in Baton Rouge. Poor guy, the customers were looking at him like they were trying to figure out how to cook him. "HHHMMMMM do we need to make a roux or just brown him and put him in the oven"?