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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:MS Tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And if you had any common sense, you'd realize that I was responding to a response to your post. Try reading the thread in the correct order.

  2. Re:MS Tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The worm's memory-resident, moron. You have to reboot to get rid of it.

  3. 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 :)

  4. uh oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think my puter just died..

  5. Re:But how many know that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try installing Office 2000 SR1 on a copy of Microsoft Office 2000 that was installed with the serial number "GC6J3-GTQ62-FP876-94FBR-D3DX8"

    You will find your computer no longer works like you expect it to.

    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q 255/5/03.ASP

  6. Re:I would like to have sex with a teenage girl. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi sexy, what is ur email?

  7. god damnit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck slashdot and its fucked up filtering

  8. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see you on Teekgack, you body thetan!

    Xemu 4 Life!!!

  9. Re:MS Tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There was no smiley face, dumbass.

  10. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for amigadk!

  11. Re:Stop blaming microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my comment is too big for slashdot, you won't be able to read the whole thing because of the buffer ove

  12. Re:Stop blaming microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My buffer is overflowing with love for Natalie Portman.

  13. 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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    The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
  14. Re:Liability for software defects by kalamazoo904 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    --
    Your friendly neighborhood nitpicker
  15. Re:But how many know that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My God! That's the serial I use! sjdgasdsjdfskdfhsk h98459843759843 98uffksjdfkjsdflj *TERMINATED*

  16. Re:Service Pack MAXINT, step by step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) leonbrooks, I love you
    2) Isn't this what ASPLinux does?
    3) I'd also convert their outlook.pst files to MBOX
    4) I'd also do their bookmarks
    5) Run all their .DOC files through 'strings $1.doc >$1.txt'
    6) Load up Ximian Evolution so they'd never notice