Hrm.

Sep. 30th, 2002 07:42 am
[personal profile] napoleonherself
Last night, three Verizon Online IPs made approximately five billion attempts to get at a /scripts/ directory on the Apache server I set up. Unfortunately for them, the folder G:\Server folders\scripts simply does not exist on my system. Ha. I'm wondering why they all resolved to Verizon, though. I'm Verizon. Again, hrm. Suspicious.

HAVING A COLD IS NOT FUN POKEY HOORAY so I'm going to play hooky from work today. Not from school, though. Midterms in both my classes today. Oy. Then I get to bus to the mall and wait for mom to swing by in the midst of working and rush me home. Again, oy. Predictably, last week's heat wave has broken, and the predicted high for today is 72. It figures.

Also, keep in mind, if you've got money to waste, my donation box is still open, and details are still
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Last night, three Verizon Online IPs made approximately five billion attempts to get at a /scripts/ directory on the Apache server I set up. Unfortunately for them, the folder G:\Server folders\scripts simply does not exist on my system. <I>Ha</I>. I'm wondering why they all resolved to Verizon, though. <I>I'm</I> Verizon. Again, hrm. Suspicious.

<FONT FACE="courier"><I><S>HAVING A COLD IS NOT FUN POKEY HOORAY</S></I></FONT> so I'm going to play hooky from work today. Not from school, though. Midterms in both my classes today. Oy. Then I get to bus to the mall and wait for mom to swing by in the midst of working and rush me home. Again, oy. Predictably, last week's heat wave has broken, and the predicted high for today is 72. It <I>figures</I>.

Also, keep in mind, if you've got money to waste, my donation box is still open, and details are still <A HREF=http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=napoleonherself&itemid=471645
">here</A>. Donations of large amounts scare me and make me wonder if you didn't make a typo, but I complain not one bit about smaller ones. ...well, technically I don't complain about the big ones either. Heh. And, as before, lack of donations != lack of sd. It's coming back once I stop being sick, whether a single 'nother person gives me money or not.

Also also, I YAM SLEEPY POKEY HOORAY

Date: 2002-09-30 09:20 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chess
Attackers tend to target local IPs because they know that the targets are on the same ISP as them, i.e. broadband and hence likely to be juicy targets; or sometimes merely out of unoriginality (and not wanting to pick on anyone who's likely to fight back, which they might be more likely to find if they chose a IP range that isn't simply a consumer-ISP type).

How Not To Infect

Date: 2002-09-30 12:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainspam.livejournal.com
Another reason they attack local IPs would be that they would be most likely to be hit fastest, since there's fewer routers to go through to hit the targets. Thus, far less chance of lagging out and being noticed that badly. If they shot out to random IPs out of the 4 billion or so in the IP namespace, it'd take quite some time and would fire out to all kinds of ISPs, thus lagging for routers.

And the point about businesses or whatnot on other ISPs who are willing to fight back. >:-)

So, I'd say people are trying to hit you with Code Red or Nimda attempts. Pay it no heed if you're using Apache. I even had a Linux cron job set up to clean the logs of their presence every ten minutes or so.

Date: 2002-09-30 10:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hamusutaa.livejournal.com
This sounds like a virus attack. I forget which one is the main one still floating around (Code Red?), but it's a virus that attacks Microsoft IIS webservers, then infects them and they go and infect more.

Date: 2002-09-30 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vxo.livejournal.com
Wait a minute, a virus that attacks Microsoft IIS?

I thought Microsoft IIS WAS a virus.

Viva Apache!

Date: 2002-09-30 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darnn.livejournal.com
I don't know about the scary viruses these people mention, but I plan on giving you lots of money (at at this point it actually seems likely that I'm going to be able to).

QUizzes

Date: 2002-09-30 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
WHat HAppened TO ALl OF THe QUizzes? I AM STill LOoking FOr THem! PLease E-MAil ME @ CHAD590@aol.com

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