Code Red growth stats

Thu Aug 2 03:15:50 UTC 2001

In message <EA9368A5B1010140ADBF534E4D32C728025AB1 at condor.mhsc.com>, Roeland Me
yer writes:
>> From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb at research.att.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:36 PM
>
>> If it has indeed turned up again, I'm at a loss to explain it.  While 
>> I'm sure there are some IIS servers on home machines, I doubt 
>> there are 
>> that many.  But I don't have another explanation to offer.
>
>Are you taking into account that every copy of Win2K comes with IIS? I had
>to quickly run around and do upgrades yesterday. I clean forgot about the
>workstations. I bet that I'm not the only one either.
>
Are you sure about that?  Or rather, are you sure it's on by default?  
I just checked my toy desktop machine and rebooted to the other 
partition of my laptop, and didn't see it running on either.l  To be 
sure, I'd have turned it off if I knew it was on, but I have no idea 
how to do things like that on Windows...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb