[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.

-- 
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