http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-17-002-20-SC

Cheese the Friendly Worm On the Loose (patching lion-compromised machines as
it goes)
May 17, 2001, 14 :09 UTC

Cheese the Friendly Worm is loose, out to close back doors left open by the
recent Lion worm, which exploited vulnerabilities in BIND.

According to the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon, the
Cheese worm exploits the same back door Lion used, applies a patch to
eliminate the back doors left by Lion, then runs scans from the host it's
just visited to find other infected machines with port 10008 open, and
spreads to them, applying its patch as it goes.


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