[Gllug] M$ Technet?

Richard Cohen richard at vmlinuz.org
Tue Jul 31 11:32:39 UTC 2001


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 home at alexhudson.com wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:10:10PM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
> > Can worms (and viruses) jump the species boundary?
>
> Doesn't Code Red affect Ciscos as well?

Not explicitly.  It sends an HTTP request to port 80 which the Cisco
built-in web server (for management) sees as malformed and can fall over.
It's not actually and attack on Ciscos - it just happens to kill them too
:-(

> Cheers,
>
> Alex.

Cheers
Richard


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