What would be even more interesting would be a script that causes their
servers to download and execute the patch file!

-JMS
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Sprout
|Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:52 PM
|To: Mandrake Expert
|Subject: RE: [expert] The CodeRed -- BZZZT! it does not work
|
|
|On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Franki wrote:
|
|> They may not know that they have been compromised, and unless 
|> something happens to let them know, it will probably stay that way. 
|> (if they kept in touch with their servers via logs and stuff, they 
|> would know... but if they were that type of sysadmin, they would 
|> probably have patched their server before they got compromised.)
|
|Chances are, they *don't* know that they are infected.  CR 
|hits on my @home cable segment are outnumbering my T1 by a 
|factor of 10.  I have now way of knowing if this is typical, 
|but from I am hearing from other sysadmins, they are reporting 
|similar results.
|
|> Taking that into account, consider that if their server shutdown a 
|> couple of times for no apparent reason, it may cause them to 
|actually 
|> check into why it is happening...
|
|They probably don't even notice.
|
|> Also, that code doesn't do anything but shut the server down,,, its 
|> the least of possible things that could be done....
|
|I know!  And, as the original poster just wrote, that one 
|doesn't work, so he thinks, hmmmm...maybe, if I use the 
|root.exe command shell, and copy his quicken data to the 
|webserver, I can figure out a different way to get his 
|attention.  It's a slippery slope.
|
|> They are stealing our bandwidth through their ineptitude,, they 
|> deserve what they get...
|
|No, they deserve to be educated.
|
|> It should be made clear to corporations that Sysadmin is not just 
|> loading win98 and office onto networked workstations, its a 
|full time 
|> job setting up, maintaining/upgrading and monitoring a network,, 
|> people that plug a server in, set it up, and don't touch it again 
|> until it needs upgrading need to be shown the error of their ways...
|
|That's all well and good, but you don't what ripple effects 
|your little stunt will have.  Are you willing to take 
|responsibility for any losses that are incurred?
|
|> I have tried to convince my co workers, that they are not nearly 
|> paranoid enough and that if I wasn't part of the company it 
|would take 
|> me  very little time to compromise root on nearly all the 
|servers not 
|> under my care...
|
|And, if they're like my co-workers, they are in awe of your 
|geekiness, and it goes in one ear and out the other.  :)
|
|> Think about it, if every server running apache (over 60% of the net) 
|> put this patch up... code red II would be dead by 
|tomorrow.... and as 
|> a side benefit, a good many servers running microsoft IIS on the net 
|> would be shutdown...  :-)
|
|I'll agree with you in principle, if not in method.  :)
|
|> Stuff like this will always happen as long as companies put 
|guys in IT 
|> positions because they have proved they can install win95/98.....
|
|Yes, it will.  However, I think that with all the displaced 
|tech workers, these folks are going to go the way of the dodo.
|
|> It makes us all look bad...
|
|I disagree.  When my boss asked if it was going to cause us 
|any problems, I said, "Nope, not a problem at all.  Here's why..."
|
|It made me look very good.  :)
|
|+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|| Craig Sprout               |   "Never ascribe to malice that  |
|| Billings, MT               |   which is adequately explained  |
|| http://www.mtsprouts.net   |   by incompetence."  -Napoleon   |
|+---------------------------------------------------------------+
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