Brian Clifton wrote: > > Dear All > > Is there a way to stop apache responding to .exe file requests altogether? > > I am getting fed up with my error_log file being filled by nimbda and we don't host >any .exe files!! I have been monitoring > it since the summer and the number of nimbda type entries appears to have started to >go up again since xmas...
Well, you'd need a patch that makes Apache prescient, so it know a request was about to be made... :-) The logs show what happened. I'm sure you could disable logging for just .exes by hacking the source, but that's going to a lot of trouble to break something that's there for a reason. Alternatively, I would recommend that you use Early Bird http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/earlybird/ to automagically LART all those Nimda-infected hosts. I set up EB to LART every single instance of Nimda, and I hardly see any attempts any more. If nothing else, the ISPs hosting those broken boxes will get tired of receiving the reports and make the customer or user fix the problem. -- John Oliver System Administrator hosting.com, an Allegiance Telecom company mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (858) 637-3600 http://www.hosting.com/
