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Re: New worm?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Apr 22 00:29:26 2005

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:28:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <38d82bb8228ac3d054ca532f67eec485@gizmopartners.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Chris Boyd wrote:

> Several machines on a resnet that I consult for have started spewing
> traffic--50Mbits/sec all the way up to line rate.  We're working on
> discoing the affected machines and getting traffic characteristics.

Why new worm?  What makes you think they're not just bots participating in
a DDoS?

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