[CLUE-Tech] Re: [rmiug-discuss] virus?? - linux folks take note

[Charlie Oriez]

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It was suggested on another list that I'm on that while the latest 
virus attack today is only directly infecting MSII servers, we're 
being impacted on our linux servers to some lesser extent because the 
attacks are tying up bandwidth.

will this in fact work? Any downside? does the person have the code 
right?

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The easiest and most convenient way to reduce the attacks on our 
servers is to alert Microsoft directly whenever one of their 
customers tells us that they have been infected by attacking our 
servers.  The following lines in your .htaccess file will directly 
notify Microsoft of the attack, and permit Microsoft to contact their 
customer to instruct them on the security update du jour:

redirect /scripts http://www.microsoft.com
redirect /c http://www.microsoft.com
redirect /d http://www.microsoft.com
redirect /MSACD http://www.microsoft.com
redirect /msacd http://www.microsoft.com

Yeah, we know.  If we were cruel and cynical we'd redirect to an ad 
pointing out that if they were on a linux/apache server they wouldn't 
have been compromised, but they'll figure that out for themselves 
eventually.  

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