[33483] in bugtraq
Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Marx)
Fri Feb 6 17:17:10 2004
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:18:26 +0100
To: "Larry Seltzer" <larry@larryseltzer.com>
From: Andreas Marx <amarx@gega-it.de>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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Hi!
>I just got the alert below from US-CERT. It's one of the new lists they
>started. Some things about it bother me. First, it's dated 1/28, the day
>MyDoom.B was discovered, and the message sent field says that too; other
>dates in the headers disagree.
Yes, I got this report as well and I agree with you that MyDoom.B was not
able to spread widely at all. It looks like a mistake to me -- maybe they
wanted to warn for MyDoom.A instead of MyDoomB.?
At the time of the writing, Trend Micro's online scanner HouseCall has
found and cleaned more than 900.000 MyDoom.A-infected machines:
<http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.A&VSect=S>
However, they only found 7 (seven) MyDoom.B infected PCs world-wide:
<http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.B&VSect=S>
At least one av company has send out a wrong alert for MyDoom.B as well
(they wanted to update their MyDoom.A advisory, but they mixed-up both
worms descriptions).
A German news about this possible false alert can be found here:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/44281
cheers,
Andreas
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BSc. Andreas Marx <amarx@gega-it.de>, http://www.av-test.org
AV-Test GmbH, Klewitzstr. 7, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany
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