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Code Red: the Aftermath

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-only-this-was-the-last-code-red-article dept.

LiquidPC writes: "Microsoft has released a tool to help clean up the effects of the Code Red II. It removes the files and mappings installed by the worm, and reboots your system; it also gives you an option to permanantly disable IIS." So, Microsoft has given you a mop to clean up the mess they made. Start mopping! If you're not the one infected, just tired of seeing your Apache logs fill up, you might see this page.

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  1. Re:Not the mess they made... by pointwood · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Talking about rebooting - check this news.com video out.

    Everybody but Bill Gates thinks it's pretty funny :)

  2. Re:Stop blaming microsoft by jeffy124 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Alright, that's crossing the line. Thousands (perhaps millions) of applications have been written in C without trouble before. I beleive you are not a programmer who is aware of how good a language such as C is in the long haul.

    Personally, the bug MS left in their code could have been easily made by any programmer, it just happened that this (very easy to fix) bug exisisted in a high-profile application and also opened up the ability to run arbitrary code on an IIS server, giving a path for Code Red to operate with.

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  3. Re:Liability for software defects by kalamazoo904 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Amen, brother. I submitted that story too, and got rejected too.

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