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Re: Nachi down
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:09:07 -0500
REN-ISAC wrote:
Starting the year on a good note for network security... Supposed to deactivate itself beginning Jan 1, 2004, Nachi appears to be doing just that. The infection will wind down as machines are rebooted - Nachi checks the date only on start-up. Aggregate ICMP echo request stats for Abilene can be seen at: http://stryper.uits.iu.edu/icmp/aggregate-hist.cgi?name=icmp-echo-request
I hope you're right, but we've shutdown a half-dozen resnet machines already due to what looks like Nachi to us (returning students). Jeff ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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