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Re: Problem with Brickbay?
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lugnet.market.brickshops
Date: 
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:47:15 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Amy Hughes writes:
In lugnet.market.brickshops, Ray Sanders writes:
... It almost felt like the server was under great load.

It probably was. My web log shows *thousands* of attempts by the latest worm to
infect me.

While logged on thru earthlink last night, I turned on the personal web server
on the iMac. The log was showing a nimda virii hit on average every 2-3 minutes.
This was on a dialup port, which typically would have *no* port 80 server
active. I reversed a few of the IPs at ARIN. Most (all ?) of them were from
north america. Don't believe I saw one from anywhere outside of NA.

Dan relies on ASP, so he's more vulnerable to these kinds of
attacks.

I think the primary vulnaribility is IIS, but with this variant, it tries
multiple approaches to compromise the server. NIPC has a writeup here ...

<http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-022.htm>

I hope people start billing Microsoft for this crap. I'm microsoft-free, and
their shoddy software can still kill my site with the volume of traffic these
worms create.

One has to wonder why so many worms target MS vunerabilities. Or is it because
MS software has so many vunerabilities. All in favor of peer-reviewed source
code, say 'aye'.

Ray



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Problem with Brickbay?
 
Well, brickbay is still down. And just today I heard on the morning radio about another DOS type virus running around. *SIGH* Don't script kiddies have anything better to do than to proprogate viruses that takes advantage of Microsoft's "EVERYTHING (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
  Re: Problem with Brickbay?
 
(...) well, being that you're from NA, that's expected. The worm is trying to be smart, and infect mostly local ips - that way, it's not slowing down the backbone as much, and can spread further and faster. (...) hehe, aye :) I just hope someone (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
  Re: Problem with Brickbay?
 
yeah, i'm gonna' go a hair off topic and rant a tad. (...) Aye! Well, I'm sitting here and averaging an IIS probe every 10sec. This is downright pathetic. Forensically speaking, nimda is not very interesting. It ties together a number of different (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)

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  Re: Problem with Brickbay?
 
(...) It probably was. My web log shows *thousands* of attempts by the latest worm to infect me. Dan relies on ASP, so he's more vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. I hope people start billing Microsoft for this crap. I'm microsoft-free, and their (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)

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