Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

From: Chris Carey (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 13:05:17 PST

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    Nimda and CodeRed created huge security holes on the infected machines. This
    is far worse a payload than having a server reboot.
    
    Crashing a server is silly. If you propogated n times then crashed the
    server, you would lose the exponential spreading effect. Right?
    
    -Chris
    
    
    > 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...
    



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