[Gllug] The Code Red worm turns?

[David Irvine]

Heh, reminds me of the 'Internet Spring Cleaning Joke'
 perhaps there should be a wide scale implementation
of this.

David - Note to the best of my knowledge yahoo isnt
supposed to put any non plain text crap in this mail,
appologies if it does.


--- "French, Alastair"
<Alastair.French at racalinst.co.uk> wrote:
> Shouldn't Windows machines be reboot daily anyway
> (this will fix most of the
> known win problems!!!)
> 
> Alastair
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Gordon Joly [SMTP:gordon.joly at pobox.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:10 AM
> > To:	gllug at linux.co.uk
> > Subject:	[Gllug] The Code Red worm turns?
> > 
> > At 8:25 +0100 2001-08-01, French, Alastair wrote:
> > >You would have thought the BBC would read there
> own information wouldn't
> > >you. They state in the article below
> > >
> > >"The worm reportedly spends two-thirds of every
> month looking for new
> > >machines to infect and the rest of the time using
> these machines to
> > bombard
> > >the site of the White House, with bogus data
> packets. For the last few
> > days
> > >of every month, it lies dormant. "
> > >Does this not imply that the virus would be
> dormant up until last night
> > and
> > >then spread from today, with the "bombardment"
> starting later in the
> > month.
> > >I believe that the start date for this is around
> the 19th of the month as
> > >discussed a couple of weeks ago on this very
> list.
> > >
> > >Alastair
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, on the 19th to the IP address of
> www.whitehouse.gov...
> > 
> > The virus also dies when machine are switched off.
> > 
> > How abou "World Switch Off Day", on say 15th of
> every month. Windows 
> > 2000 and NT only need to switch off of course.
> > 
> > And the CISCO switches?
> > 
> > Gordo
> > 
> > P.S. Does the worm use GMT or localtime? My "tidal
> wave" analogy only 
> > works if the worm uses local time of course!
> > -- 
> > Gordon Joly//////////
> > gordon.joly at pobox.com
> > http://pobox.com/~or/
> > 
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