OT: RC Vaccine?

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:55:28AM -0700, 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 t=
hat
> > sends an e-mail to postmaster@infected.ip.that.hit? Or would that be
> > considered unsolicited e-mail/SPAM?
>=20
> Keep in mind that in the case of Code Red (and *most* worms), the infecte=
d=20
> host is running Windows.  How many windows boxes do you know that have a =
mail=20
> server correctly setup and running so that 'postmaster@ip' would even wor=
k :-)

Well, not many home users, but what about the large commercial sites out th=
ere?
I'd think they'd at least have webmaster@wherever setup. Besides isn't
postmaster@wherever an RFC requirement?

-- Mondoshawan

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