[39985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hard data on network impact of the "Code Red" worm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Jul 30 13:37:09 2001
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To: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:22:18 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:36:38 -0400
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:22:18 CDT, Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu> said:
> Alos, is it possible that the critter got through firewalls and "did harm",
> but could not get back out again? I don't know of any cases like that.
Of course you don't know of those cases - they didn't get back out. Of
course, all it takes is one site that says "OK, Fred needs to surf the
web for JUST A MOMENT" for it to escape again.
And I'm sure there's more than one site out there that doesn't realize
they've got a problem inside their firewall...
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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