[Gllug] M$ Technet?

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Tue Jul 31 11:42:39 UTC 2001


On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:32:39PM +0100, Richard Cohen 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
> :-(

Explicit or not, doesn't matter at the end of the day, does it? ;) At least
they don't actually become infected and spread it as well...

Cheers,

Alex.
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