Re: *** ADMIN: Downtime 8/6

[Lou Forlini <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

    IMHO, if you are running an IIS server without the security 
patches, you should be held accountable for whatever damages your 
server causes.  Unluckily for you, your IP address is logged with 
every worm request.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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