Re: [sean () donelan com: Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before]

[Michael Scheidell <scheidell () secnap net>]

> Wow, Symantec is making an amazing claim.  They were able to detect
> the slammer worm "hours" before.  Did anyone receive early alerts from
> Symantec about the SQL slammer worm hours earlier?  Academics have
> estimated the worm spread world-wide, and reached its maximum scanning
> rate in less than 10 minutes.

It might be possible that they saw some of the initial 'load' traffic,
source port 69, or src port 53, dst port udp 1434, but this was mostly
some code almost 100% based on the litchfield exploit.

(oh, we saw it on December 19th and DID notify several IPS's and have
the logs to prove it)

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