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Re: worm?


From: "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:03:48 -0500

One of our support technician's machines is attempting to connect to
random IP addresses on port 25 - in 
a pretty needy fashion. He says he's scanned the box with the latest
updates from McAffee and it hasn't 
found anything.

We discovered it because one of my basic (meaning I got it off the
'Net) rules for SEC flagged it as a possible PHEL trojan.

Any thoughts?

I think your technician needs to try booting from trusted media and using
more than one type of scanner.  The only time we've ever had outbound SMTP
sweeps from a Windows workstation it was botted.

PaulM


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