[rescue] [OT] CodeRed activity?

[Rebecca Ore]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> On 04 Aug 2001 23:20:37 -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > I don't. Smart people should know better.
> 
> I'm trying to recognize that some people may not have a choice ie that's
> what a vendor set up and will refuse to support them if they apply the
> patch(es).  Cisco is very sensitive like that about their VoIP phone
> systems (which are based off Win2k), for example.
> 
> But you're right.  Smart people either a) know better and run apache or
> b) have something in front of the IIS system that can filter the web
> requests.
> 
> Just survival of the fittest, I guess.
> 

Yes, but it's bogging down even connections that it can't exploit.  I
was wondering why everything tonight was so slow (ssh'ed in from work)
and came home and looked at my logs.



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Rebecca Ore
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