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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