Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

From: Lincoln Yeoh (lyeohat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 22:47:03 PST

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    At 01:05 PM 30-10-2001 -0800, Chris Carey wrote:
    >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?
    
    Yep. I'm looking for a way to get Nimda infected machines to shutdown/crash.
    
    Preferably directly as a result of their HTTP request, not after their HTTP
    request. e.g. buffer overflow the worm code or something. Coz I don't want
    to make requests to the infected machines.
    
    Cheerio,
    Link.
    



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