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Happy Birthday Code Red
totallygeek writes: "One year ago today (July 19, 2001), more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code Red worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of infection, more than 2,000 new machines were infected each minute. Servers running Internet Information Services from Microsoft were propagating this worm across the Internet faster than anything has up to then or since. For the first time, systems running the Apache web server were getting requests for a document called "default.ida". Here we are a year later, and my web log shows an average of forty-two requests per day for default.ida over the last five days. To really appreciate the spread of this program, look at this animated image."
It is the gift that just keeps on giving.
...that on the anniversary of an attack which paralyzed servers dead in their tracks, we hear the far-away screams of agony from the lone sysadmin of missingleftsocks.com as 100,000 slashdotters pillage his machine simultaneously.
Don't worry about Code Red and related problems. I'm sure Microsoft will fix everything before they start storing our National ID information.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
From the official #python@OPN quotefile:
<skreech> I'm gonna miss code red when its gone, my webpage has never gotten this many hits before
"Happy Birthday Code Red, Happy Birthday Code Red, Bill sucks with his coding, Happy Birthday Code Red."
Now blow out the flaming servers, and make a wish.
Insert something insightful here, or I'll insert something painful there.
That's the first time I've seen someone getting smashed by the /. effect, and coming back asking for more!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Where did you get that idea from? Collecting trolls doesn't make me a troll myself, and as far as the second one... Whatcha talking about, willis?
Someone will let them know... hehehe.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Microsoft still insists that such things are the fault of the user, not the software.
Microsoft is right. The user is using Microsoft software.
my web log shows an average of forty-two requests per day
That is indeed interesting, a short time ago when discussing Windows security in a danish newsgroup, I counted the entries in my log. I also had an average of forty-two requests per day.
This couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
We jokingly discussed an Evil Plan where I worked when CodeRed first came out.
One thing we discussed doing was getting a copy, disassembling it, and building a version that would install FreeBSD with Apache with Front Page Extensions and the Active Server Pages module over top of the Windows installation, with all of the web site content left more or less intact.
We figured that it would be pretty cool if we could make it so that people would not notice that their server had been "competitively upgraded" until the next scheduled reboot/update.
We thought that it would be even more likely to go a long time if we captured the console screen of the running server, and used it as the boot "splash screen" for the replacement OS...
Of course, as I said, doing this would be Evil, so we only discussed the possibility.
-- Terry
I share a birthday with an IIS worm! Seriously!
Do I get a cookie?
Recommended gifts from admirers:
1) DIVX's of Hackers or The Net.
2) Natalie Portman... Enough said.
3) Port me to more platforms.
and finally.... a 2nd chance.
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CodeRed, the lower user #. No relation to SirCam.