in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

Tue Jan 27 02:00:40 UTC 2004

We are seeing 2 wide spread worms right now, mydoom and dumaru.*

NAI has info at

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100983.htm

and

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100980.htm

They rate of it is quite surprising.  By the description, the trick  / 
method of infection does not seem all that different than past worms 
viri.  Makes me wonder how many people in a room would reach into their 
purse/pocket on hearing, "Wallet inspector"

         ---Mike

At 08:52 PM 26/01/2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

>my copies (500 or so, before i filtered) are in a ~7MB gzip'd mailbox file
>called http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/mailworm.mbox.gz (plz don't fetch that unless
>you need it for comparison or analysis).  there's a high degree of splay in
>the smtp/tcp peer address, and the sender is prepared to try backup MX's if
>the primary rejects it, though it appears to try the MX's in priority order.