Talk:Code Red (computer worm)

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"It used the pattern NNNNNNNN..."

How did it use this pattern? --67.172.99.160 00:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at my own server logs from back then, it was using this long string of characters as the beginning of the query string (the part after the ? in the URL) to overflow the buffer. I'm updating the article to clarify this. Mpeg4codec 02:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I explained the worm payload is the set of characters following the last 'N'. --_N_e_g_r_u_l_i_o 19:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]