[Xitami] Code Red requests
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:44:41 +0100
In message <01d401c11f4c$23f1a8a0$4d7b68d5@rudge> "Owen Rudge" writes:
>
> You could create a PHP page called default.ida with something like:
>
> <?
>
> mail("webmaster@$HTTP_REMOTE_HOST", "Code Red Worm", "You have been infected
> by the Code Red worm! Please download the patch from www.microsoft.com.",
> "From: You <you@yourdomain.com>\n");
>
> // please note this script is untested
> ?>
>
> and add .ida = php.exe in the [Filters] section of defaults.cfg. Or you
> could create a Perl script and set the filter up to run Perl instead of PHP.
It sounds both attractive and feasible; ...except, many of these sites
are running IIS without even knowing it: therefore it's exceedingly
likely that they will not have set up a webmaster account to receive
mail.
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being incr-
easingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs