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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: Another Win32 worm?
From:       Drew Linsalata <drew () gothambus ! com>
Date:       2001-11-18 0:28:16
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OK, so this turned out not to be a new worm after all, just a machine that
was left unpatched that wound up getting slammed and really saturating our
network.  The machine should not even have been attached to the network.  It
was more of a human error than anything else, although the offending machine
did manage to cause some problems with neighboring Win32 based servers.

Sorry for the false alarm.

Drew Linsalata
The Gotham Bus Company
Internet Server and Carrier Neutral Co-Location
http://www.gothambus.com

> From: Drew Linsalata <drew@gothambus.com>
> Reply-To: list@inet-access.net
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 08:56:33 -0500
> To: inet- access <list@inet-access.net>
> Subject: Another Win32 worm?
> 
> Heads up!
> 
> This morning at 4AM eastern, traffic on our network jumped to an extreme
> level.  It would appear that our Win32 based customers have all been
> infected with yet another worm that is particularly fierce in its ability to
> seek out and infect other vulnerable machines.  It really ate up bandwidth
> in a big way.
> 
> Our most clueful Win32 customer just found a new patch on the MS update
> site.  Once he installed it and rebooted, the problem went away.
> 
> As we learn more, we'll post it.  Has anyone else seen this today?
> 
> Drew Linsalata
> The Gotham Bus Company
> Internet Server and Carrier Neutral Co-Location
> http://www.gothambus.com
> 
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