Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

From: Meritt James (meritt_james@bah.com)
Date: 10/30/01 

Message-ID: <3BDEEDE3.8DDA649B@bah.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:13:55 -0500
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
To: Rodrigo Goya <lucent@securenet.com.mx>
Subject: Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

Propagate THEN crash.

Rodrigo Goya wrote:
>
> What if something like this would be used in a worm like Nimda or CodeRed,
> would it crash all the infected servers? Bet that'd really call the admin's
> attention. Though it'd make the propagation a little difficult...
>
> Maybe by infecting mail clients (like Nimda) and make them scan for web
> servers and crash them?
>
> Cheers,
> Rodrigo
> 

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