The Sadmind worm was a computer worm which exploited vulnerabilities in both Sun Microsystems' Solaris (Security Bulletin 00191, CVE-1999-0977) and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (MS00-078, CVE-2000-0884), for which a patch had been made available seven months earlier. It was discovered on May 8, 2001.
Specifically, the virus affected the sadmind daemon on Solaris systems which had sadmind enabled in inetd.conf, since the sadmind daemon normally ran with root privileges.
<div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px"> <div style="background:#000; color:#f00; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 1em 0">fuck USA Government<br>fuck PoizonBOx<div style="font-size: 50%; line-height: 1.2em">contact:@yahoo.com.cn</div></div> <div class="thumbcaption">Message displayed on sites altered by Sadmind worm.</div> </div></div> The worm defaced web servers with a message against the United States government and the anti-Chinese cracking group PoizonBOx.