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Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:07:28 -0500
Are there any reliable estimates as to the amount of infected hosts out there? Looking at my stats for email sent this week, I am seeing a 70:1 ratio for mydoom.a as compared to Swen.a (the next most prevalent virus). Perhaps if we had some rough #s to work with we could start to approximate the range of traffic volumes we might see.
---Mike At 07:17 PM 30/01/2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
Having looked for some information to educate myself and my employer, I will say a weakness right now is that there is limited info about this worm. I have yet to see any good information on how effective the attack might be, or what some basic prevention steps (eg filtering) might do to the worm. Backbones don't often have people that disassemble worms. It would be nice to find some way for the anti-virus companies to share more details quicker with various backbones in order to effectively combat the DDOS portion of worms. If anyone has any good analysis on the current worm (other than "it attacks www.sco.com"), that would be welcome. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
Current thread:
- Impending (mydoom) DOS attack bcm (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Chris Behrens (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Lack of Info (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack) Sean Donelan (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Mike Tancsa (Jan 30)
- MyDoom statistics (was Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack) Sean Donelan (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Donovan Hill (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Donovan Hill (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jan 31)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Leo Bicknell (Jan 30)
- Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 30)