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Ray Sanders wrote:
> 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.
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.
> > 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'.
hehe, aye :) I just hope someone will be able to prove that MS knew they are releasing buggy software, in which case they actually might be liable!
well, one can hope :)
Dan
FUT o-t.geek, since we're talking worm here :)
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