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RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics?
From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:12:44 -0600
-----Original Message----- From: Dante Mercurio [mailto:Dante () webcti com] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:09 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. ********************* It's not hype. This is one of the Mydoom/Beagle/Netsky variants (I just don't recall which variant or which of the three worms it is off the top of my head). Since these vx groups "own" thousands of boxes, each time they seed a new virus, they infect thousands of machines. Even if it isn't spreading, it's still in a lot of boxes. Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free 30-day trial: firewall with virus/spam protection, URL filtering, VPN, wireless security Protect your network against hackers, viruses, spam and other risks with Astaro Security Linux, the comprehensive security solution that combines six applications in one software solution for ease of use and lower total cost of ownership. Download your free trial at http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/Astaro_incidents_040301 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Dante Mercurio (Mar 17)
- RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Mailing Lists (Mar 17)
- Re: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Joe Stewart (Mar 17)
- Re: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Schmehl, Paul L (Mar 17)
- RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Ken Dunham (Mar 17)
- RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? Schmehl, Paul L (Mar 17)