Re: Danger alert! New internet security problem

From: leslie (LESLIE_at_JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:39:56 GMT

14tonks (mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net) wrote:
: http://tinyurl.com/ypdjt
:
: I would suggest people not use their credit card or other financial
: information on web sites until they have a patch for this in their
: antivirus, and until it is known what major sites were affected. So far they
: aren't saying.
:
: --
:
: Sheila
: To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
:

You can see what operating system and web server a site is running at
to see if it uses a Microsoft web server or not:

   http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph
   Netcraft What's That Site Running Results

For example, www.cnn.com is running Netscape on a mixture of Linux
and Solaris systems.

Here's the CERT advisory on the problem:

   http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#iis5
   US-CERT Current Activity

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