Code Red Back For More 866
Brian Stretch writes: "The Code Red II worm was unleashed early this morning and appears to be very different than the original and far more dangerous. CR2 infected servers only attack servers within their Class A address block and their Class B address block in particular: since 9:11am EST I've logged 148 CR2 attack attempts, 89 of which are from within my Class B subnet, suggesting that only servers within Class A networks that were deliberately seeded are being attacked. The 24.x.x.x range is one of the hardest hit, and as before, it's folks with cable modems and DSL connections that are providing the most victims." Several @home customers have written about slowed service today, but they're definitely not alone.
In my honor too ... (Score:5, Funny)
If worms start popping up with Linux4Green (my ICQ nick) then I know I'm bad luck.
Re:me too (Score:3, Funny)
Should read: Several @Home users reported that everything was moving along normaly. Most of thier friends giggled and left the room.
Re:a quick fix (Score:5, Funny)
What the fuck? What the fuck is going on? How the fuck is it that I can have old ladies calling me up at work (tech support for an ISP) and asking if the reason they can't pick up their email is because of the Code Red worm, 'cos they saw the press conference and, hey, they're wondering, and something like 105,000 separate IP addresses are still infected? Did the rapture happen when I wasn't looking, and God took the people responsible for these computers, those left behind couldn't find the passwords anywhere? How is this possible?
(I know, I know; not everyone lives w/in viewing distance of CNN, default installations of MS whatever -- but still, this absolutely amazes me.)
Microsoft or security... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My subnet is hit (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If this can't break Microsoft's back nothing wi (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All I want to know is (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Rooted? Lemme get this straight.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In my honor too ... (Score:2, Funny)
Your name is Michael Bolton? Wow, like the singer guy?
Yes, and it's just a coincidence.
So do you like his music?
Code Red - the soda pop - sales take off! (Score:3, Funny)
Code Red--the soda--has been spreading almost as fast as its namesake computer worm, which has infected hundreds of thousands of computers to date. The caffeine-laden, cherry-flavored version of its pale-yellow cousin, Mountain Dew, was released in May, months before the Code Red worm threatened to clog Internet traffic. And as computer security experts work to contain the damage from the Code Red worm, the soda's maker, Pepsi, is coincidentally featuring a "Crack the Code" contest on the Mountain Dew Web site.
Code Red has been an especially big hit with computer programmers, who often guzzle the high-octane drink to fuel late-night code-writing sessions. Among the drink's fans were the staff of eEye Digital Security, who say they identified the Code Red worm and named it after their favorite soda..
The rest of the story can be found on http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid
Its funny. Laugh. Please?
Re:Something that should happen more often. (Score:3, Funny)
I hereby propose we adopt your post as a convention.
We can thus encode "war stories" about the latest [worm/virus/trojan] as follows, saving Slashdot a fortune in bandwidth charges.
For instance, I can now describe my evening as follows:
"IIS. Code Red II. flaw. IIS. doesn't. FreeBSD. 429. worms. thousands. Apache. Apache. FreeBSD. company. worm. 6.2MB."
Re:Now that is funny! (Score:2, Funny)
-S
Re:Something that should happen more often. (Score:2, Funny)
My range... (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing from the 192.168.0.x range here!!
=)
Re:Why don't they... (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, this will just make the sysadmins even lazier.
SysAdmin #1: Dude, your NT machines are all infected with Code Red!
SysAdmin #2: I know! I'm just waiting for for them to be infected with the fix... should be any day now...
Re:what is code red. . (Score:4, Funny)
Or maybe patent it. Also how about sending the BSA after anyone running it without a licence.
Re:If this can't break Microsoft's back nothing wi (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, you don't. Linux is free
Re:Now that is funny! (Score:3, Funny)
Now that is funny! (Score:5, Funny)
Top 8 things to do with Code Red (Score:4, Funny)
1. Distribute Elcomsoft's e-book reader to all compromised boxes; search for any Adobe e-books and write out a plaintext copy.
2. Append the code to DeCSS to all Word documents on the box.
3. Modify the code to only patch the box when Dmitry is finally released from jail.
4. Install Linux; reboot.
5. Install BSD; reboot.
6. Configure box to DoS MS's IIS patch servers; condemn MS for making patches inaccessible.
7. Script all boxes to respond to
8. Install SETI; add the box to your team; brag about your high score.
Note: these are jokes. Please, please, do not do these things. Especially because if you do, the feds will come knocking on my door.
Re:Now that is funny! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:a quick fix (Score:2, Funny)
c:\deltree windows
maybe we could even install scripts on our own servers to automatically do this each time we recieve a new attack. Automated windows repair solutions.
Something that should happen more often. (Score:5, Funny)
What about.... (Score:4, Funny)