[Gllug] Code Red

[Dean]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:20:41AM +0100, will wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20474.html
 
> The solution?  Use a decent OS. the only annoying thing about this
> yesterday evening for me was that it completely flooded our two office
> internet connections (ie. no connection past the firewalls)

Probably someone trying to use your email hosting ;)

> but for this gem it seems a small price to pay :-)

eEye has done a lot of good work with this worm and you can get a copy of
the full breakdown and analysis, commented disassembly and binary of the
worm from:
http://www.eeye.com/html/advisories/codered.zip 

Apparently this worm's also knocking over certain cisco routers with
webinterfaces and some 3com kit.

	Dean (In a Windows shop and loving every minute of this worm)
-- 
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   --- Anon

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