[Gllug] Code Red

[Ian Baillie]

Do you think this code red might be a prank to increase hits on the
"Whitehouse" and "prove" the popularity of Bush?


----- Original Message -----
From: <john.hearns at framestore.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: [Gllug] Code Red


> I got this from Securityfocus.
>
> They're right - let's pack it in folks.
> Hellfire and Code Red worms arrive tomorrow -
> lets all go to the beach for the day and
> let the world come to an end. Grin.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: The sky is falling, or so I am told.
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:50:20 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Alfred Huger <ah at securityfocus.com>
> To: <incidents at securityfocus.com>
>
>
>
> Heya all,
>
> As most of you have seen today the press world is rife with various
> vendors proclaiming our impending doom. Pack it in folks, it's shot.
> Valiant effort and whatnot but apparently the 1rst of the coming month
> is
> all hellfire and Code Red worms. Or at least a series of security
> companies, OS vendors, press organizations and .gov agencies seem to
> think so.  Smacks of too little too late with a healthy mix of
> commercial
> fear mongering thrown in but hey, I am cynical after all...
>
> I do expect some activity on the first, and I sincerely hope it does not
> reach the mammoth proportions of the initial breakout. I suspect that
> with
> all of the notifications everyone did on the first round plus the
> resulting press (not to mention the current flurry) that the 'awoken'
> version of this worm will not be all that bad.
>
> Of course, I could be wrong.
>
> Should this be the case we will (we being SecurityFocus) be doing
> notifications once again. FWIW we ended up notifying against 300,000+
> hosts from the last round. Should you like to submit offending hosts for
> us to notify against please send them to:
>
> aris-report at securityfocus.com
>
> *PLEASE* place them in the following format:
>
> IP ADDRESS DATE/TIME
>
> Without the date and time the notification process becomes a nightmare.
>
> Cheers,
> -al
>
>
> VP Engineering
> SecurityFocus.com
> "Vae Victis"
>
>
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