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Re: Second wave of Nimda?


From: Jensenne Roculan <jroculan () securityfocus com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:10:54 -0600 (MDT)

Hi there,

The ARIS analysis of the Nimda email propagation reactivation issue can be
found at:

http://aris.securityfocus.com/alerts/nimda/010926-Alert-Nimda-Reactivation.pdf

Hope this helps.

Jensenne Roculan
SecurityFocus - http://www.securityfocus.com
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Tracey Losco wrote:

Has anyone heard of this and is there any merit in its possibility?
In the code for the worm, there was a "get system time" call...I was
wondering whether or not it was for computations or whether it was a
timer....it this is true, it looks like it was a timer....

Researchers say Nimda set to propagate again

By Deborah Radcliff, Computerworld online
September 27, 2001 10:52 am PT

RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED a third vector to the Nimda worm, which is
set to propagate again through e-mail at 1 a.m. ET Friday.

The website is located:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/27/010927hnnimbda.xml?0927alert


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