Re: Apache error log: strange records

From: ynotssor
Date: 12/02/02 

Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 23:29:28 -0800
From: ynotssor <ynotssor>

Dragan Colak wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> I found a whole bunch of these lines in my Apache error log as well as the
> corresponding lines in the access log. I've never seen them before.
>
> [Thu Nov 28 ...] [error] [client ...] Invalid method in request ãR
> [Thu Nov 28 ...] [error] [client ...] Invalid method in request ã<
> [Thu Nov 28 ...] [error] [client ...] Invalid method in request ãP
>
> Can anybody tell me what this is? A worm, a virus, an exploit? I got the
> first request of that kind on [Sat Nov 23 01:36:57 2002]. It stopped last
> Thursday but only because I had to shut down the server in order to add
> some new hard drives.

Looks like some probes into the capabilities of various cross-site scripting
exploits.

           tony 

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