RE: Code Red and ISS Internet Scanner

["Johnston, Jack" <JohnstonJ () mtmc army mil>]

We've been using the eEye Code Red Scanner since yesterday afternoon, at my
hQ and 
at our subordinate commands, and all are in agreement that it's working
rather well.

Jack Johnston
Information Assurance Manager
Information Warfare Officer
MTDC-IMI
DSN-927-7497/cml 757-878-7497
<johnstonj () mtmc army mil>


-----Original Message-----
From: Aj Effin Reznor [mailto:aj () reznor com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:34 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Code Red and ISS Internet Scanner


"Mike Peterson was known to say....."
> I don't want to start any discussions about ISS
> Internet Scanner but, with the prospect of renewed
> activity by the Code Red worm it needs to be pointed
> out that Internet Scanner may not pick up the
> vulnerability.
>
> After using Internet Scanner 6.1 xpu 10 we did not
> find the vulnerability, until we got hit by the Code
> Red worm.  According to ISS, Internet Scanner will
> only find the vulnerability if you operate with a
> username and password with administrative rights on
> the target.

While not detecting the *activity* of the worm, eEye has a simple no-charge
tool to let you know if your 
machines are at least likely to fall prey to it:

http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Tools/codered.html

~middle of the page, CodeRedScanner


-aj.



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