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Re: Cracked cracker?



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On Thursday 12 December 2002 16:55, Michael Olds wrote:
> This is a small sample from my access log. Can someone explain to me
> why this person would repeatedly attempt access to my computer using
> the same IP and the same requests over and over? This isn't to the
> point of being a DOS attack; can't they see I don't have any of these
> things that they think will enable them to crack my machine? Or is
> there something else going on here?
>
>
> 63.205.213.16 - - [11/Dec/2002:13:16:07 -0800] "GET 
>/scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 270 "-" "-"
> [bunch of similar calls to windoze execs]

This is probably coming from a Nimda infected host. You can ignore it as 
long as it's not coming from one of your own machines :-P

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