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How to reject the "code red" request from error _log (it doesn't log in access but in error) ?

Feb 26th, 2002 16:30
Denny De La Haye, Victor Rivera,

I set up a few empty files in an almost empty directory structure just
for Code Red (and Nimda and derivatives) to look at.  If you just
'touch' the files it's looking for (cmd.exe and root.exe if memory
serves) then at least it does a 0k download and then goes away, without
racking up a dozen or more lines in your error log (although I suppose
it shifts the problem to the access log).

Alternatively, if you've got a lot of bandwidth to spare, you could
always symlink a CD ISO for the Linux distribution of your choice to one
or both of those files  :)