Kurt,

Well considering how Redmond STRONGLY urges you run Mail Services / Web
Services / Database Services on SEPARATE machines.  The chances of
mail@ipaddress.com should automatically fail if they have configured
according to vendor specifications. :)

Yes Im being a smart arse.

-Derek

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> On Monday 06 August 2001 11:39 am, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> > Mm... Good points. I hadn't thought about it with regards to bandwidth
> > issues, etc. Perhaps then just a simple script running on a webserver that
> > sends an e-mail to postmaster@infected.ip.that.hit? Or would that be
> > considered unsolicited e-mail/SPAM?
> 
> Keep in mind that in the case of Code Red (and *most* worms), the infected 
> host is running Windows.  How many windows boxes do you know that have a mail 
> server correctly setup and running so that 'postmaster@ip' would even work :-)
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