Re: nimda probes

2001-09-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
dman wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: | DvB wrote: ... | You could always set up a tarpit: | | http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/ | | How is this different from, or better than, CodeRedneck? If you read the page, it says that LaBrea is the

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Of course, one can choose to redirect the request anywhere

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Karsten M. Self wrote: ... In /var/lib/dpkg: 32504 info 4564available-old 4564available 2816methods ...is it possible to clear out the 'info' directory? This contains the list, md5sums, postinst, postrm, preinst, prerm, and shlibs files for packages. I

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:07:55AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: ... In /var/lib/dpkg: 32504 info 4564available-old 4564available 2816methods ...is it possible to clear out the 'info' directory? This contains

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
DvB wrote: Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: | DvB wrote: ... | You could always set up a tarpit: | | http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/ | | How is this different from, or better than, CodeRedneck? If you read the page, it says that LaBrea is the next generation of

nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Of course, one can choose to redirect the request anywhere. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com That is so tempting... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting | nimda probes using Apache: | | RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com This is clever. I wonder, though, if the worm will actually follow the redirect. -D

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:15:58AM -0400, dman wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:55:23PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting | nimda probes using Apache: | | RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com This is clever. I

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Adam McDaniel writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Adam McDaniel writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. Couldn't you just claim

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:53:02PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: once upon a time John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Adam McDaniel writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. And

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Heh. I wonder if nimda actually responds to redirects. -=greg

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Sam Varghese (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:55:23PM +1000): Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com well, this would definitely cause micro$oft to claim Over 20 billion accesses

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Adam McDaniel (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:49:40AM -0600): the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. wrong. apache sends an HTTP Redirect, and it's still the client's job to execute the

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach John Hasler (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:50:17AM -0500): And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. no, they'd be proud of all the traffic. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it appears that

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:30:02AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Adam McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response,

RE: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a toolkit that does so automatically. Code

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting nimda probes using Apache: RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com Heh. I wonder

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: Code Red, for instance, wouldn't follow redirects. try calling default.ida from my server -- http://www.gnubies.com/default.ida What for? If I do so with a browser, I'll presumably get redirected. But the virus wouldn't, because IT ISN'T A BROWSER AND DOESN'T SUPPORT

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread DvB
Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it, unless it's

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:17 CDT, Brooks R. Robinson writes: the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it,

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:24:45AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: | On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting | nimda probes using Apache

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Sam Varghese wrote: Looking at my logs, it seems to work: GET /cmd.dll HTTP/1.0 302 GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 302 Same Apache redirect response as for /default.ida and that, I know, works. Depends what you mean by works. Apache is sending the redirect message that

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Looking at my logs, it seems to work: GET /cmd.dll HTTP/1.0 302 GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 302 Yeah, but just because your Apache sends a 302 code back to the Nimda box doesn't mean it will use this information and hit www.microsoft.com. If you redirected it to another

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Greg Wiley
On: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its responsibility to follow it,

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Frank Preut
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:17:30AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. Couldn't you just claim that your machine was inffected? either way, its microsoft's fault anyway :) well, they released the patch almost a year ago.. it's their fault

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Brooks R. Robinson (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:12:17PM -0500): What about port forwarding? It'd still up the CPU usage on a machine, but would it have the same results? I so much want to do this. sure, that would work. if you can afford the bandwidth. i got 2.7Gb in four hours in mere

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:50:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | Adam McDaniel writes: | the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would | hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. | | And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. How so?