[NTLUG:Discuss] Next IIS Virus engaged...it's fast and spreading.

Jack Snodgrass idiotboy at cybermail.net
Tue Sep 18 13:36:43 CDT 2001


Thanks for the heads up.... yesterday and the day before I had about
500 hits each to my error_log on my apache/linux box. So far today, (13 
hours into the day ) over 36,000 hits to the error_log. This virus is 
burning up a log of cycles/network traffic. 

jack




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Next IIS Virus engaged...it's fast and spreading.


> Apparently spreads (so I'm told) through IE (not IIS), but infects
> the IIS servers contacted by the browser (ick)... they in turn
> infect their web pages and propagate the spread... (I can't
> confirm all of this right now... I do know that I've seen
> over 95 hosts infected today here... we're doing a full
> port 80 shutdown).
> 
> Be warned!
> 
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