[KLUG Members] (humor) Code Red and Microsoft Web Servers

[Patrick Stockton]

I read a story earlier today that says security experts are now patting
themselves on the back for having averted last nights "potential" out break
of Code Red.

Do you get the feeling that this was all hype to help increase funding for
things like CERT and other things like that?

Or am I just being paranoid.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wesley Leonard" <marshall@pacdemon.org>
To: "Klug Mailing List" <members@kalamazoolinux.org>; "Cynthia Joy Drake"
<drakecyn@pilot.msu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: [KLUG Members] (humor) Code Red and Microsoft Web Servers


> This was taken from a post on slashdot:
>
> "What might also hamper the ability of the virus to spread is the relative
> unreliability of Microsoft web servers.  The Code Red virus lurks in the
memory
> of a web server and is cleared when the computer is rebooted.
>
> As Microsoft servers crash more often than many of their counterparts,
this
> might limit the spread of the malicious code."
>
> from the bbc:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1468000/1468329.stm
>
> --
>
> Wesley Leonard
> marshall@pacdemon.org
>
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