RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics?

["Mailing Lists" <dsovml () moosoft com>]

The article is about PhatBot (no x) and it's an AgoBot (GaoBot for McAfee
fans) variant but we just call it AgoBot here.  I don't see the need for a
new name.  There are a lot of AgoBots in the wild.

Daniel Otis-Vigil
MooSoft Development
http://www.moosoft.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dante Mercurio [mailto:Dante () webcti com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:09 AM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics?
>
> http://isc.incidents.org/diary.html?date=2004-03-11
>
> Reports about 5000 infections on the 11th.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1804&ncid=1804
> &e=3&u=/wa
> shpost/20040317/tc_washpost/a444_2004mar17
>
> Claims hundreds of thousands of systems are infected.
>
> Is this hype or is this really spreading? Smells like hype to 
> me because
> SARC reports nothing described as Phatbox and turns up nothing in the
> Symantec virus/backdoor database.
>
> Anyone seeing a lot of it in the wild?


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