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Re: Problem with Brickbay?
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lugnet.market.brickshops
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:46:12 GMT
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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 is bundled/tied in/held hostage by
the OS" business plan?
In lugnet.market.brickshops, Ray Sanders writes:
> 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.
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> > Dan relies on ASP, so he's more vulnerable to these kinds of
> > attacks.
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> I think the primary vulnaribility is IIS, but with this variant, it tries
> multiple approaches to compromise the server. NIPC has a writeup here ...
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> <http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-022.htm>
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> > 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.
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> 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
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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