On Tuesday 18 September 2001 20:43, you wrote:
> Following your link, I found out that this is what has been hitting my
> server ever since this morning.
>
> I also went to see what CERT had to say and found something totally
> unexpected. See the following link:
>
> http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#CodeRed
>
> It seems that somebody created a "Code Green" worm that goes around looking
> for systems infected with Code Red II....... and cleans them up.
Yes I read about Code Green... Somebody was tired of being hit by code red
and came up with the idea of a self cleanning worm.
But this other worm is something totally different, as it compromises systems
in three ways, as attachement, as virus and self propagating worm using the
network. very clever.
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Nimda means 'admin' backwards...
Nimda worm running rampant on Web
The aggressive worm is thought to have infected thousands
to tens of thousands of Web servers and slowed Internet
traffic for many more, according to security experts.
http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?141169:1652958
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