On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:18:02PM +0200, Tycho Fruru wrote: > > The logfile entries you've shown are absolutely harmless, I use exactly > > the same strings for testing if a webserver responses. > hmm. To me they don't seem harmless. Looks more like you've been > visited by a slapper worm (which leaves the same trails in your > logfiles) The messages itself are absolutely harmless. Whatever brought down your server did it at least not by using just these queries. They can be used by a worm though - to quickly check which server version is displayed. To check if the server is vulnerable to the slapper worm (i.e. the recent OpenSSL vulnerability), visit: http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/advisories/openssl-sslv2-master/
bye, -christan-
