On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:36:18PM +0100, Sean Kelly wrote:
> My webcache is having a massive ammount of requests for
> http://www.worm.com/default.ida?. Is this an infected machine trying to
> scan, or is this a scanner trying to detect compromised hosts?
On the last round, the hosts trying to access it matched almost exactly
those found to be vulnerable to Code Red. One host managed 46 million
requests over a 30 hour period.
Once again we've got hosts hammering away at the cache with requests for
that URL, and some admins not taking them offline when asked. *sigh*
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