Hi
This thread makes kinda scary reading.
Can someone reassure me that Code Red and Nimda are only problems if you are
running a web server?  and not if you just have a standard ADSL connection?
Thanks
Mark
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From: "Nello Sestini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: tftp.exe - Continued


> > The place is usual winnt\system32.
>
> This log entry (and other like it):
> 01:26:12 203.173.177.17 GET /scripts/..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe 200
>
> show that there is (or was) a cmd.exe that could successfully
> be reached via an HTTP get to your IIS server.
>
> If you don't have a rogue copy of cmd.exe sitting in your
> scripts directory (or someplace downstream from your document root)
> then perhaps you have a "virtual directory" defined
> that maps your \winnt\system32 directory to an accessible
> webserver path.   You could check for this by looking in
> your IIS configuration.
>
> The above log entry is pretty convincing.    A file called cmd.exe
> is/was "reachable" via GET.    A properly constructed GET with
> parameters could send that cmd.exe any command it wanted to.
>
> -ns
>
> > This address was used for last 2 days. Before there were others. Each
used
> > around 40 times, then another address is taken.
> >
> > 203.173.177.17 belongs to IHUG but what exactly it is I do not know.
>
> it could just be some other IHUG subscriber with an infected workstation
> running IIS that hits you while you're both dialed into the ISP.
>
> Nimda probes "similar" IP addresses with higher probability than
> random addresses - so it tends to attack "neighbors".
>
> -ns
>
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