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Re: Tracking down the still infected hosts


From: Duncan Hill <dhill () cricalix net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:05:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Dale Lancaster wrote:

[Tue Sep 25 16:33:41 2001] [error] [client 199.26.11.171] File does not
exist: /some/where/html/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc

It may just be some misconfiguration in our site, but the shtml.exe
seems to point to something else since we don't use .exe stuff on
our site.  These are flooding my site, but we get lots of them over
a day.

Frontpage for *nix uses shtml.exe.  Possibly an attack.

-- 

Sapere aude
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