New Worm

Fri Sep 14 15:29:59 UTC 2001

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Ejay Hire wrote:
> My Honeypot was infected with a new self-replicating worm yesterday.
> It appears to check for open win95/98/me netbios shares with read/write
> permission and installs wininit.exe (the scanner/infector) and the
> distributed.net client (In quiet Mode).

Matches the MO of W32.HLLW.Bymer, a pretty old one that hit my parents'
PC a while back:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.bymer.html

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Jeff Gehlbach, Concord Communications <jgehlbach at concord.com>
Senior Professional Services Consultant, Atlanta
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