SQL worm easily preventable
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 26, 2003 at 8:11:21 PM
Yeah, don't run consumer OS things on a server 
. It happened because admins are just to lazy to patch their servers.
. It happened because admins are just to lazy to patch their servers.Quote
But last July's original security advisory about the vulnerability certainly wasn't the first time SQL users were told to patch their systems. Nor was it the only time. Yet system administrators were still left scrambling over the weekend to recover from the latest fiasco.