Yep,
A few of our clients in both the public and private sectors were hit by
this too. What awes me is simple common sense would evade the entire
problem. Ah well... ;)On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:33, Schmehl, Paul L wrote: > I can't speak for the others, but McAfee was detecting this worm just > fine as soon as it hit our network. The only thing wrong was that it > didn't have the name correct, but who really cares about that? We set > up our scanners to always scan archives and zip files, so something like > this is no big deal. We've quarantined over 900 copies in the past 20 > hours, so it's a big deal to somebody.... > > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ATD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:15 AM > > To: *Hobbit* > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] A worm... > > > > > > Yes, > > And this was my point. Are the crafty "worm gods" > > creating worms that evade detection by using compression and > > other methods? If they are doing this, and if they are > > creating the "stealth worms" whats next. Zip files would be > > just one of hundreds of ways to hide worms. Maybe the virus > > scanning technology needs to be kicked up a notch or two.
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