They also had the patch out weeks ago with the same STRONG urge (no
doubt) to apply the patch......did they do that either? I mean, there
aren't any machines infected by this are there, since Winadmins do
everything right... applying patches, running services on seperate
machines (not a Linux prob ;), updating virus software, rebooting
nightly... the mythical five nines (yeah right)
Patrick

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> 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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