Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before

Thu Feb 13 17:16:43 UTC 2003

really? wow then according to their press release none of their 
Deepsight customers were compromised because of this early warning?  I 
bet that can be debunked fairly quickly.  Let's se what falls out of the 
busy once it is shaken a bit.

Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
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> I saw this mentioned in an article a day or two after the attack.
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> Clearly they are wrong about this (lying or mistaken), for as you say the speed
> of propogation means that a single infected host would have infected the whole
> internet in minutes which means we all see the first packets at almost exactly
> the same time.
> 
>>From the context it is written below, this seems a cheap stunt to promote their 
> service.
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> Steve
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
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>>Wow, Symantec is making an amazing claim.  They were able to detect
>>the slammer worm "hours" before.  Did anyone receive early alerts from
>>Symantec about the SQL slammer worm hours earlier?  Academics have
>>estimated the worm spread world-wide, and reached its maximum scanning
>>rate in less than 10 minutes.
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>>I assume Symantec has some data to back up their claim.
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>>http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=1985&EID=0
>>  "For example, the DeepSight Threat Management System discovered the
>>  Slammer worm hours before it began rapidly propagating. Symantec's
>>  DeepSight Threat Management System then delivered timely alerts and
>>  procedures, enabling administrators to protect against the attack
>>  before their environment was compromised."
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