[39668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Code Red
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Thu Jul 19 22:42:46 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Jeff Ogden <jogden@merit.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeff Ogden wrote:
> How long is it going to take to get every Windows NT, Windows 2000,
> and Windows XP system patched? We may be at this for a long time. I
> am not looking forward to this.
>
> Any ideas for other approaches to the problem?
Yes, a "helpful" virus targeting infected hosts, a list of which is
easily derived from your weblogs. (I'm not seriously suggesting this, but
it could be very effective.)
