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  • Subject: RE: *** ADMIN: Downtime 8/6
  • From: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:26:58 -0400
  • Importance: Normal

The worm opens the server running IIS and can then be controlled or crashed
at will.  Microsoft isn't SOLELY to blame, though, someone had to WRITE the
worm.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leif Svalgaard
>>From: Lou Forlini <lforlini@sspi-software.com>
>
>> At 9:08 AM -0500 8/7/01, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
>> >interesting how everybody (the media, at least) blame Micro$oft ISS for
>code
>> >red,
>> >when Cisco is also to blame.
>>
>>     Microsoft is solely to blame.  The fact that Cisco routers crash
>> because of the worm is a bug in Cisco's code, but does not cause the
>> worm to propagate.  Some web servers (not IIS) also crash when they
>> receive the extra long URL request, but do not propagate the worm.
>>
>
>so now we blame Micro$oft for NOT crashing like the others.  :-)

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