Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Code Red II is, according to published reports, a new worm that borrows
> Code Red's infection mechanism but is otherwise completely different. I
> have not seen any statement that Code Red II cares about the White
> House's web site.
Based on the anaylses I've read, CR2 doesn't have a 'stop growing and
DDOS' phase at all. It's set to shut down at the end of this month
and, until then, it's just propagating and spreading back doors as fast
as it can.
I have, however, heard that there's a strain of CR1 which has been set
to DOS 255.255.255.255, which has the potential to bring down local
subnets. Such fun...
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