Code Red Version 2.0 is out...

[The Stigenator]

check the headlines at /.

www.slashdot.com

 

[nateholtrop]

you know what i say to Code REd 2!!! bah humbug
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[ratkil]

I was reading a story about that and they said it was named after the high caffiene drink of programmers. Does anybody really drink that stuff? I thought it was really nasty.

 

[iamwiz82]

code red is great!! The drink, that is. The story goes that the guys who discovered the virus loved code red mt. dew, so they named it after their favorite drink.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Must thank whoever created this worm!

Need to make people realize just how crappy a NT based web server is.

 

[guyver01]

<< Must thank whoever created this worm!

Need to make people realize just how crappy a NT based web server is. >>



After you thank the guy.. .gimme his info so i can kill him!

For the last day or two, cable modems everywhere have been under &quot;activity siege&quot; with activity lights blinking. Its not affecting performance or anything, just a ton of port 80 probes and a bunch of ARP requests causing constantly flashing activity lights. Well, everyone knows how paranoid basic internet computer users are... so where I work.. we've been inundated with phonecalls wanting to know what's going on.
What people don't know about this virus is it sends out TCP SYN probes across the local subnet looking for active machines on port 80. What happens when a TCP SYN to port 80 is sent to a machine that is offline (and therefore not in the ARP table)? A broadcast ARP. That's why the lights are flashing.

I cannot WAIT until this code red stuff is over! My firewall alone has recorded a few hundred port 80 probes.

 

[Hyperblaze]

i KNEW there was a reason to avoid tech support with dear life!

Actually...I'm kinda tech support too, but for unix based products

but honestly, I'm sorry to hear that guyver. I just can't stop laughing at how crackers always end up showing security holes in Microsoft products.

I just hope that hackers don't start becoming as lazy in the development of linux based products or else same thing could happen to
linux/unix/etc users!

 

[Burn]

/edit - Delete

 

[Danman]

Good 'ol Microsoft.........

 

[Jfur]

I heard the newer version is actually a much bigger threat...

 

[Raspewtin]

<< I heard the newer version is actually a much bigger threat... >>




Code Red...it's not just for servers anymore.

 

[Antoneo]

LOL I thought you meant Code Red the drink went 2.0