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Re: W32.Badtrans.B@mm storming my mailservers...


From: Ryan Tucker <rtucker () netacc net>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:55:45 -0500

We're seeing a lot of it...

Our possible-email-attack alarms have looked like this over the last week...

2001-11-20      4
2001-11-21      7
2001-11-22      4
2001-11-23      2
2001-11-24      1
2001-11-25      5
2001-11-26      11 (up to 14:30 EST)

We started noticing this worm at 16:44 EST yesterday (11/25)...

Fortunately, html-trap.procmail seems to work well for catching this. :-) -rt

On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 02:30 , Raistlin wrote:

I have personally received about 8 copies of this worm today, and my
mailserver is busy with incoming and outgoing requests of the same kind.

Is this a trend out there or it's just my problem ?

Stefano "Raistlin" Zanero
System Administrator Gioco.Net
public PGP key block at http://gioco.net/pgpkeys


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Ryan Tucker <rtucker () netacc net>
Network Operations Manager, NetAccess, Inc.
http://www.netacc.net/ • (585)419-8252


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