[olug] Code red

[Brian Roberson]

The worm does not die when IIS dies. Eventually the machine runs out of
memory or cpu time and runs itself into the ground.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Korab [mailto:adam at ledhazard.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 7:01 PM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: Re: [olug] Code red
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 06:50:52PM -0500, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > That is really cool. I'm gonna have to try that.
> 
> So what, exactly, is it supposed to do?  Maybe I'm missing 
> something but throwing the infected box's query string back 
> at it isn't going to do a whole lot because IIS restarts 
> itself when it dies, if I remember correctly.  I don't have 
> one here to test it with, though, because the one sorry IIS 
> box laying around has already been patched. :)
> 
> --Adam
> -- 
> "A workstation without a network is like a geek in a field 
> all by himself. It looks intriguing, unusual and different 
> but no one will come within 20 feet of it." -- Sun help document
> 
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