[40118] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Code Red growth stats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Aug 1 23:16:55 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: k claffy <kc@ipn.caida.org>, nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 23:15:50 -0400
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In message <EA9368A5B1010140ADBF534E4D32C728025AB1@condor.mhsc.com>, Roeland Me
yer writes:
>> From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@research.att.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:36 PM
>
>> If it has indeed turned up again, I'm at a loss to explain it. While
>> I'm sure there are some IIS servers on home machines, I doubt
>> there are
>> that many. But I don't have another explanation to offer.
>
>Are you taking into account that every copy of Win2K comes with IIS? I had
>to quickly run around and do upgrades yesterday. I clean forgot about the
>workstations. I bet that I'm not the only one either.
>
Are you sure about that? Or rather, are you sure it's on by default?
I just checked my toy desktop machine and rebooted to the other
partition of my laptop, and didn't see it running on either.l To be
sure, I'd have turned it off if I knew it was on, but I have no idea
how to do things like that on Windows...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
