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August 5th, 2001, 05:10 AM
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OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
I was wondering what went wrong with the Shrapnel server lately. The forum was really slow in the past day or two and then failed altogether yesterday. Just looked up their main page and it seems that their whole site went down, not just the forum. Were they using an unpatched Version of IIS? Got hit by the Code Red epidemic?
In fact in the Last week or so I noticed a big jump of port scans on my own computer. Port 27374 used to be the all-time favourite for obvious reasons, but port 80 scans really surpassed it in terms of numbers. What's even more interesting is that a lot of the originating addresses were from my own @Home cable modem network... so many "home" Users running IIS on their computers???
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August 5th, 2001, 05:17 AM
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Re: OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
No we're fine, in fact I installed the code red patch awhile back. Even though our problem is related to code red (in the fact that the actual patch caused us problems) code red itself didn't hit us.
But we're fine now...
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Richard Arnesen
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Shrapnel Games
http://www.shrapnelgames.com
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August 5th, 2001, 05:40 AM
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Re: OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
quote: Originally posted by Richard:
No we're fine, in fact I installed the code red patch awhile back. Even though our problem is related to code red (in the fact that the actual patch caused us problems) code red itself didn't hit us.
The worm had "secondary" effects, and MS was not on your side!  Just kidding. And wow! New record - 16 port 80 scans on my computer in the past hour alone, and I'm just a humble end user!
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August 5th, 2001, 08:01 AM
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Re: OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
I use BlackICE defender, and since I switched from @Home Cable serivice to Qwest DSL service, I have noticed a 10 fold increase in attempted HTTP Port Probes, Backorfice scans, Trojan Scans, TCP Port Probes, Fragment Overlaps, UDP Port probes, and the list goes on. I estimate over a 1000 hits in the Last week alone.
This tells me that there are many bad people out there who would love to violate my system and reck havock upon my computer.
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August 5th, 2001, 11:42 AM
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Re: OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
Atrocities, BlackIce is one of the worst firewalls......
Use zonealarm (they have one Version free and a PRO Version).
In the http://www.zonelabs.com
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August 5th, 2001, 12:31 PM
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Re: OT - Shrapnel Games server hit by Code Red?!?
I've heard that the latest Version of Zonealarm (2.6.231) can cause stability and connectivity problems for people with cable modems, anybody want to share your experience with it?
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