[61102] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Fri Aug 22 15:42:27 2003
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: Andrew Kerr <andrew_kerr@iamnos.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F466BD0.1000507@iamnos.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Andrew Kerr wrote:
> Its been posted here, and f-secure has it, but I wrote a quick script to
> keep an eye on the 20 servers and dump the output to a simple page:
>
> http://207.195.54.37/sobig.html
>
> (Updates about every 5 mins)
You're probing the list of NTP servers the worm uses to get the date, not
the list of hosts to which it "phones home".
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