[Techtalk] "Slapper" worm targeting Linux/Apache servers

[Maria Blackmore]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Kai MacTane wrote:

> At 9/20/02 08:39 AM , Raven Brooke wrote:
> 
> >***IMPORTANT note regarding this patch:
> >
> >A *reboot* is required in order for this patch to work. Having just
> >rebuilt a server that was infected by slapper after the patch was applied
> >but the box not rebooted, I can testify that this is indeed the case.
> 
> That's very odd. It should be sufficient to simply restart Apache. Was that 
> done?

hmm, yes that is odd.

Maybe it's to do with libraries?

how odd

Maria