Seems like Code Red or one of its little friends is back.
I think breaking up Microsoft is a bad idea,
but there are days it would be nice to have their
Web Server and Email Worm-Propagators run by companies
other than the operating system company just so fewer people
would be running that
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:49:30AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
| Somebody did a paper about a hypothetical Andy Warhol Virus,
| studying how long it takes to take over a server,
| how many servers you can attack per minute, and
| what it would take to coordinate an attack that really hit
At 09:49 AM 9/18/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Seems like Code Red or one of its little friends is back.
This one supposedly uses both http servers and email (MS of course) to
propogate. Even read that visiting an infected web site can cause
client infection, but we'll have to await the
The worm hit Cryptome at 8:43 AM EST and is now sucking
at a rate of about 90% of the load. As others have noted,
the bulk of the hits appear to be coming from our own
ISP, either by design or by spoofing the origin. Our server
is on Apache but the worm generates endless errors
attempting to find
