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Re: Does Code Red infect Windows NT?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M Pedro)
Mon Aug 6 17:17:45 2001

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I believe code-I affects Windows NT. Microsoft has a patch for it on their 
site.

jmp
At 06:09 AM 8/6/01, Jeff Ogden wrote:

>One of the recent announcements about Code Red II says that due to a bug 
>the worm only infects Windows 2000. It says the same is true for the 
>original versions of Code Red.
>
>If I am following things:
>
>    Both Windows 2000 and Windows NT are vulnerable to the IIS
>    buffer overflow problem.
>
>    Only Windows 2000 is infected by the Code Red Worm I and II (so far).
>
>    Windows NT is not infected by the Code Red Worm I or II.
>
>Is this really the case?
>
>    -Jeff


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