[Xitami] CodeRed solution...

[Michael]

On 10 Aug 2001, at 20:07, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:

> At 07:14 PM 8/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >On 10 Aug 2001, at 15:53, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> >Two wrongs do not make a right.  You can certainly ask for redress for 
> >your damages (none).   Anyone who gets infected is equally guilty of the 
> >same negligence as the person that did the infecting.
> 
> Wrong...I can claim psychological damage.  I want to see CodeRed II gone
> from my log files.  It isn't going away.  It causes me
> damage...psychologically.  I focus on the issue and ponder ways to deal
> with it (e.g. the couple ideas I've had).  It causes me to lose time and
> money.  There you go...a valid, legal "damage" that can be measured.  Now,
> you may think me to be strange/weird/psycho., but it doesn't matter,
> CodeRed has occupied too much of my time and I want it gone...poof!

You have psychological damage from a worm that poses you no danger 
other than a few hundred entries in your logs each day?  You are living 
through history in the making ~ relax and enjoy it for what it is.

> 
> >CNN and the New York Times does this using the code of the English 
> >language to educate people of the danger and how to avoid it by  installing 
> >the patch themselves.
> 
> Apparently many people don't understand the English language.

True.  But if you printed t-shirts, bumper stickers and pencils with the 
entire default.ida buffer hit printed on them you would get smiles (and 
maybe a little spending money) from people all over the world.  Just don't 
sell the stuff in Redmond, Washington.

> 
> 
>            Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
> Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers"
>                   http://www.shininglightpro.com/

Michael Alft  <--- Who Survived Code Red I & II and will survive III, IV, V...