Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

From: Blue Boar (BlueBoarat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 09:45:02 PST

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    Rodrigo Goya wrote:
    > 
    > What if something like this would be used in a worm like Nimda or CodeRed,
    > would it crash all the infected servers? Bet that'd really call the admin's
    > attention. Though it'd make the propagation a little difficult...
    > 
    > Maybe by infecting mail clients (like Nimda) and make them scan for web
    > servers and crash them?
    
    I *think* Nimda and CodeRed end up with enough privilege to simply
    issue a reboot command if they want.  As I recall, CodeRed II 
    does reboot after a while, which gets rid of any CodeRed I running.
    
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