Re: FreeBSD.Scalper.Worm

From: Andy Farkas (andyf@speednet.com.au)
Date: 06/30/02 

Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:46:37 +1000 (EST)
From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:

> One of the people sending mail to -docs, pointed me to
>
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/freebsd.scalper.worm.html
>
> It looks like more exposure needs to be provided via the web site and etc.
>
> Kent
>
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
>
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
>

Looks like this worm can be stopped by having /tmp mounted noexec. 

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
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