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Re: Interesting Occurrence

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Malo)
Mon Jun 21 14:17:42 2004

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:08:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christian Malo <chris@fiberpimp.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040621175811.GN41985@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


I'm sure Susan will make sure to revoke his posting rights.

-chris


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Brent_OKeeffe@asc.aon.com wrote:
> > Okay... Here is a new one for me.  Got a call from my dad saying he left
> > his PC on last night connected to his broadband.  He went to log in this
> > morning and noticed a new ID in his user list - IWAP_WWW.  He immediately
> > deleted is and called me.  I had him ensure his critical updates we all
> > applied - they were.  I had him ensure his antivirus was up to date - it
> > was (Norton Antivirus 2004).  He is running XP Home.
> >
> > I searched the antivirus sites and elsewhere for references.  Any idea if
> > there is a new vulnerability that has not been publicly released?  Any
> > clues?
>
> Dare I ask, what part of "North American Network Operators Group" made you
> think that this could POSSIBLY be on-topic or of interest to anyone here?
>
> --
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
> GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
>

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