Indeed, Tivo runs Linux and makes all of the GPL'd code available here.
A README explains that Tivo offers the i86 kernel source that is used on the Tivo development platform and the source for the PowerPC kernel and all of the GPL-licensed programs that are used on the Tivo units.
Many infected users don't know they're running IIS
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I would like to point out that many if not most of the machines that are still being infected by the Code Red worms are operated by users who are not even aware that they are running IIS.
Case in point, my roommate bought a Dell Dimension L700cx with Windows 2000 about 6 months ago. He was surprized when I showed him that his machine is running IIS and serving the default web page on port 80. This person did nothing to install or activate IIS, the machine was shipped with that configuration.
I think this fact is important to keep in mind when trying to understand why so many machines remain vulnerable to the IIS attack.
PS: We run our LAN behind a firewall that denies port 80, so my friend's machine was not infected.
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Indeed, Tivo runs Linux and makes all of the GPL'd code available here.
A README explains that Tivo offers the i86 kernel source that is used on the Tivo development platform and the source for the PowerPC kernel and all of the GPL-licensed programs that are used on the Tivo units.
I would like to point out that many if not most of the machines that are still being infected by the Code Red worms are operated by users who are not even aware that they are running IIS.
Case in point, my roommate bought a Dell Dimension L700cx with Windows 2000 about 6 months ago. He was surprized when I showed him that his machine is running IIS and serving the default web page on port 80. This person did nothing to install or activate IIS, the machine was shipped with that configuration.
I think this fact is important to keep in mind when trying to understand why so many machines remain vulnerable to the IIS attack.
PS: We run our LAN behind a firewall that denies port 80, so my friend's machine was not infected.