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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Virus
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:55:22 -0400


on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:36:32PM -0400, Michael Hayes wrote:
> I'm also getting tons of these requests on my server, GRRRRRRR! Not running
> IIS though, so except for keeping my log busy, I haven't had any trouble.
> For you Apache users, you could redirect requests for /default.ida to
> microsoft.com, as I did ;-).

Although I share in the frustration over Microsoft's obvious disregard
for even the most basic of security measures, and have myself redirected
requests for 'favicon.ico' to microsoft.com on all my servers, I can't
but wonder whether a worm is really going to care about following a 302.

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