[thelist] Code red?

[William Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Haworth" <evolt at laughing-buddha.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject: [thelist] Code red?


> Hi list,
>
> [code red snippage]
>
> Is it possible I'm infected with this?

No, these are infection attempts - if you're running Apache, you are
effectively immune to these attempts.

> Is it coming from someone else in my
> ADSL contention group (or whatever it's called)?

It's other BTo customers on the same /24 subnet - code red and variants scan
local subnets as well as random subnets.

Nothing to worry about if you don't have IIS public-facing.

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