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I wonder if ...

Afghanistan ... taliban .... holy war ...?

We need to start back-tracing this one, methinks.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]
|> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:30 AM
|> To: Bryan Heitman
|> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
|> Subject: Re: Worm probes 
|> 
|> 
|> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:22:06 CDT, Bryan Heitman 
|> <bryanh at communitech.net>  said:
|> > 
|> > We're also seeing a large increase in this activity.  This 
|> seems to be more
|> > severe than the first time.  Have an additional 30 to 40 
|> meg inbound from
|> > this.
|> 
|> This seems to be the culprit:
|> 
|> Concept Virus(CV) V.5, Copyright(C)2001  R.P.China
|> 
|> I've nailed a copy, and am working on getting it to the 
|> right security
|> people.  A *PRELIMINARY* (eyeballing the output of 'strings' 
|> indicates that
|> this one *both* sends itself via-email a la SirCam, *AND* 
|> scans for vulnerable
|> web servers, and if it finds a vulnerable server, it causes 
|> anybody visiting
|> that webpage to be offered a contaminated .exe as well.
|> 
|> I do *NOT* have a handle on what malicious effects it has 
|> other than just
|> propagating.
|> 
|> This one's nasty, folks...
|> 
|> -- 
|> 				Valdis Kletnieks
|> 				Operating Systems Analyst
|> 				Virginia Tech
|> 
|> 

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