[Sca-cooks] Re: modem foo, OT

[ruadh]

As I said "Your Mileage May Vary"... Unix person. Good for those that listen
to the warnings that Code Red[s] will strike,  and downloaded the patch from
MS before the drop dead date. Even MS's own Hotmail got the Bug [duh]. ISP's
with the wrong date [Yup] inside their machine will crack another rash of
Code's running about. Is there a Code Red 3 waiting to hatch?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip" <jallen at multipro.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [Sca-cooks] Re: modem foo, OT


> 'Lainie wrote:
> I understand (and this is from someone who is a Sys Admin for Intel,
> not from the ISP) that it slows down the whole internet, whether
> your ISP is infected or not.

Correct.  *switching hats* -- Code Red floods local subnets with ARP
requests.

Ruadh wrote:
> Additional note: Code Red targets NT & Win-2000 servers [mostly] and
> they are what your ISP use to drive *your* msg across the net. Yes,
> there are 'other' machine then them, YMMV.  Ru

Not this ISP.  Other machines, indeed.  We run Unix-based systems and
have not been infected.  We have been _affected_ though, just by the
general net-wide slowdown.

For more info on Code Red, its variants & sequels, and other exciting
scourges of the Internet:  www.sarc.com

I'll leave both my .sigs on this time.  :)

Chip Allen
Systems Administrator
The MultiPro Network