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Re: Web counter in the new Swen/Gibe.F worm
From: "J. Race" <caferace () well com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:54:34 -0700
The counter wasn't necessarily a good indication of infected hosts. Who knows what they started it as? Seeing as how it wasn't that hard to find, it could have been a low-grade publicity stunt. It could have been done in a far more stealthy manner.
-jim security () smharr4 dnsalias net wrote:
It's a shame the counter was replaced, this gave us a good idea of how many hosts were infected and could reveal real numbers of the rate of infection - I'm still recieving these emails, over 100 overnight. Maybe the admins of vutbr.cz would open their web logs to give us more accurate information about the point of origin and rate of spread. If anyone wants the numbers I collected (I have data from the 18th at 13:56 through 4:30am today) I'd be happy to provide them.
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