RE: [iwar] Why do you track Code Red attempts?

From: e.r. (fastflyer28@yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-08-08 20:11:17


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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: RE: [iwar] Why do you track Code Red attempts?
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Did perhaps the thought that people were trying to understand  the "why
and who behind Code Red ever dawn on you?  That will find you far more
than just looking at the Code.  The answers are only there, in part. As
who and why now-then you will start to understand the problem far
better,
--- Glenn Williamson <Glenn_Williamson@ottawa.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmmmm,
> 
>  I wonder what type of responses you will get, I know I will not give
> a
> number,numbers are useless unless attached to my paperwork.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JunkMail Rosenberger [mailto:junkmail@barnowl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [iwar] Why do you track Code Red attempts?
> 
> 
> A serious question -- why do so many people track the Code Red
> attempts on
> their servers?  Do they merely succumb to morbid curiosity?  Do they
> hope to
> save the Internet by tracking down the owner of every compromised
> machine?
> Did they not receive any Melissa/ILoveYou/Kournikova emails and now
> they
> just want to feel like they're part of the crowd?  Do they want to
> prove
> they know enough to calculate a (useless) personal number?  What
> gives?
> 
> Again, I ask this question in all seriousness.
> 
> 
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