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Re: Code Red Hammering Away

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameh Ghane)
Sat Aug 4 17:26:43 2001

Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:24:29 +0200
From: Sameh Ghane <sw@anthologeek.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108041708330.66103-100000@pi.yip.org>; from melange@yip.org on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:14:09PM -0400
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Le (On) Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Bob K ecrivit (wrote):
> 
> > > 4:53:48pm|melange@host:/home/melange> grep default.ida /var/log/httpd-access.log | grep XXXXX | wc -l
> > >        6
> > 
> > I've started seeing LOTS of XXXXX hits as of approx 1 hour ago.
> > 5 in one hour and counting...
> 
> Just for reference, here's the logs of this new variant:

Pretty interesting, maybe all nanog-post subscribers could share their
experience with this worm too. Especially if you've seen a lot of non-[XN]
alphanumerical chars.

Sorry, but this worm caused more damages to mailing lists than anything
else, on the Internet. Looks more like a chain-letter...

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