Despite that that company *was proactively* patched to protect against the #MSDE vulnerability leveraged by Slammer months in advance.

Unfortunately because of those outliers, some still got infected.

Remediating it wasn't a fire drill at least but it was nontrivial.

Thankfully someone from the libre/free open source community created a #FreeSBIE + #snort + a #Slammer signature.

I could go around to our branches, mirror a port & sniff out offending machines, slowly but surely, cleaning them.