From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 8:23:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3212237B401 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b023.otenet.gr [195.167.121.151]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7LFN5F26894 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:23:05 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7LDMFu29388; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:22:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:22:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Rowlands Cc: Tim Erlin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Red Message-ID: <20010821162213.B25065@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010820163305.60779.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com> <01082021311403.04869@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01082021311403.04869@pcmarpxy.tninet.se>; from mark.rowlands@minmail.net on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:31:14PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Rowlands Subject: Re: Code Red Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:31:14PM +0200 > On Monday 20 August 2001 18:33, Tim Erlin wrote: > > Doesn't Code Red leave a backdoor open on the servers > > it's infected? Anyone explored ways to respond to the > > http requests that shutdown IIS on the offending > > server? What would the legal implications of doing so > > be -- self-defense? > > no no no! don't go there my friend, it is almost certainly illegal in almost > every jurisdiction in the world. (even if superficially attractive). Just > think of when you inadvertently crash some .com's commerce server. > Gonna be a nice fat lawsuit there. Hell, I would not want a big, fat, commercial entity coming after me with a whole lot of 'we lost profits' suits. It's scary enough to *think* of such an incident. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message