From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 12:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32B9E37B410 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 2003 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 21:31:06 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 21:31:06 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Tim Erlin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Red Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:31:14 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010820163305.60779.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010820163305.60779.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082021311403.04869@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message