diff --git a/en/index.sgml b/en/index.sgml
index 2c1c2a1e8c..4dab84705f 100644
--- a/en/index.sgml
+++ b/en/index.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
 <!ENTITY title "The FreeBSD Project">
-<!ENTITY date  "$FreeBSD: www/en/index.sgml,v 1.126 2001/07/08 01:16:49 dd Exp $">
+<!ENTITY date  "$FreeBSD: www/en/index.sgml,v 1.127 2001/07/22 13:05:01 asmodai Exp $">
 <!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
 ]>
 
@@ -153,6 +153,23 @@ href="ru/index.html">Russian</a>, <a href="support.html#web">Other</a>
 
 	    <hr size="1" noshade>
 
+            <table width="100%" bgcolor="#990000"
+                   cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0">
+              <tbody>
+                <tr>
+                  <td>
+                    <h2 align="center">
+                      <font color="#FFFFFF">IMPORTANT</font></h2>
+
+                    <p><font color="#FFFFFF">Please be aware that the telnet
+                      daemon shipping in FreeBSD prior to July 23, 2001
+                      contains a remotely exploitable security problem. See the
+                      <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:49.telnetd.asc">
+                      security advisory</a> for more details.</font></p>
+                </tr>
+              </tbody>
+            </table>
+
 	    <h2><font color="#990000">What is FreeBSD?</font></h2>
 
 	    <p>FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the
