[NTLUG:Discuss] New IIS Virus

[Daniel Hauck]

Your statement is incomplete and/or inaccurate.  A majority of what I have
seen are home users... users (not administrators) at home.  Microsoft has
unleashed too much power to the every-day user.

I know we have had this discussion before, so please restrain yourself
better than I am, but I still hold that Microsoft should bear some
responsibility over this.  There are thousands of Windows machines out there
running IIS and the owner/user doesn't even know about it.  It's sad.

I would like to open up discussion about implementing "counter-agents."
Clearly, there is little to no risk of prosecution and I think
"self-defence" is a valid argument.  I'd be happy to host counter-offensive
software on my server while I still have port 80 access.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Goldblatt" <aaron at goldblatt.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] New IIS Virus


> > Has anyone been getting hits on their macjines from this new virus? I
>
> I'll leave others to answer your direct question, but I'll observe that
this
> Nimda thing is harder on non-IIS servers than previous viruses.  Stuff
like
> Code Red produced a few dozen log entries a day.  This is producing
thousands
> of lines a day.  Nobody except viruses hit my web server anyway, so the
> effect is minimal, but I do use the machine for other things, in addition
to
> just being my web server.
>
> It isn't Windows administration or even Windows administrators that bother
me
> so much as stupid Windows administration, and stupid Windows
administrators.
> Inattentive == stupid.
>
> ag
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