[ILUG] Bloody script kiddies

[Donncha O Caoimh]

that'd be Nimda and associated friends calling your box, nothing to
worry about :)

Donncha.


Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> Just had a look in the log file to which accesses to one of my web server
> box's IP address goes i.e. requests not to one of the hosted domains. Since
> Sept. there have been 23000+ attempts to get cmd.exe to do something and
> 4000+ attempts to find root.exe, and this is just on one lonely little box.
> I wonder do script kiddies' attempts now use up more bandwidth than porn ?
> 
> And do some poor suckers actually have IIS boxes configured in such a way
> that you can execute arbitray commands just by calling cmd.exe ?