New worm / port 1434?

Sat Jan 25 16:12:29 UTC 2003

Can you give me any information about which multicast group addresses 
were being attacked ?

I have seen very little sign of this worm in interdomain multicast; it 
does not seem
to be causing MSDP havoc the way that the RAMEN worm did.

                                  Regards
                                  Marshall Eubanks

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:00  AM, lost at l-w.net wrote:

>
> This one seemed to be particularly nasty as it was generating traffic to
> multicast addresses too. It caused a nice flood on the switched ethernet
> segment I had a vulnerable box on.  (And took out a router in the 
> process.
> Great fun.)
>
> William Astle
> finger lost at l-w.net for further information
>
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>

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