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

[Bryan J. Smith]

Wesley Leonard wrote:
> "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

I was an original NT 3.1 beta tester and ran production NT servers
from 1994-1999.
I had 1 rule of thumb:

   At least a weekly reboot, if not daily

If the system ran applications, I rebooted daily.  My NT 3.5 file
servers froze an average of every 45 days, NT 4.0 every 15 days.  My
3.5 application servers froze an average of every 10 days, my NT 4.0
every 4 days.

I no longer run NT (nor 2000) servers, period.

-- TheBS

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