Yep, but there have been less of those.  Anyway, that is why I suggested
to him to be sure to keep his box patched.  I remember the days of code
red.....  Ugghh....

Shannon

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:59, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> As opposed to a worm attacking Apache or OpenSSL? :)
> 
> At 01:49 PM 2/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >Short answer is that this is a worm....  Don't worry about it.  This is 
> >why you are not running IIS right?  This is just some sneezy, infected 
> >winblows machine out there trying to spread its germs to your *nix 
> >server.  Just make sure you keep your server patched and current....
> >
> >Shannon
> >
> >Mat Branyon wrote:
> >
> >>I am running a webserver via dyndns and I have noticed that someone is
> >>trying to run cmd.exe on my server:
> >>
> >>(ftp.vertex-networks.com - - [10/Feb/2003:07:14:14 -0600] "GET
> >> >/scripts/..%255c%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir" 404 -
> >> >
> >> >I searched everywhere for cmd.exe on my freebsd server and was unable to
> >> >find it (I wonder why).  So then the thing that i see this could be is a
> >>skript kiddie, with a really stupid program.  What can I do to block
> >>these requests, as they are taking up bandwidth?  I have a firewall with
> >>snort and squid, but don't really know how to use them (I am looking
> >>that up right now).  I started running this server a few days ago, thats
> >>how fast the attacks started coming in.  I have also had some attempted
> >>ssh logins to my computer.
> >>
> >>--mat || http://locke.homeunix.org || If mathematically you end up with
> >>the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.
> >>
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