[Xitami] A Hack Attempt or What?

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YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaw!!! Let the OS wars BEGIN! ;-)

(My OS can beat up your OS) heheh.

OK, got that out of my system - back to your regularly scheduled program...


 > Your guess would be wrong.  According to the SANS institute, only 18% of
 > my security issues are MS specific.  The largest majority are Unix/Linux
 > holes (67%) followed by SUN, Netware, and other misc. OSs.  You see more
 > press on MS products because so many people use them.  If people didn't
 > want MS products then MS wouldn't exists, but then who would we have to
 > bitch about?

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
 > [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of John Poltorak
 > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 4:02 PM
 > To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
 > Subject: Re: [Xitami] A Hack Attempt or What?


 > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:56:55PM -0500, Craig Morrison wrote:
>>
>> No your machines are not infected. Xitami is NOT vulnerable to the Code
>> Red attacks.
>>
>> The only way your machines can get infected is if you are running IIS >>
>> onthem.
>> You'll find more information about the vulnerability in IIS here:
>>
>>  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp

 > I would guess that 99.9% of the Internet's viruses and worms are
 > distributed and propagated courtesy of Microsoft.

 > The best way to protect yourself is to avoid all Microsoft products.

>> GunnarSwan wrote:
>> > Again, I am running Xitami on NT set up as a bastion host.
>> > Is it safe to assume that all the IP addresses in my Access and Error
 > logs ... that all those machines have been infected?