Re: Just a quich thought..

From: Pete Sherwood (petersherwood@home.com)
Date: 08/14/01 

Message-ID: <02af01c12447$3e9dee20$0d01a8c0@sherwood>
From: "Pete Sherwood" <petersherwood@home.com>
To: "Bruce Kingsbury" <zcat@paradise.net.nz>, <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Just a quich thought..
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:28:14 -0400

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> Have there been any viruses or worms 'in the wild' in the last six months
> that don't rely on either OE or IIS to propigate? The only two I can think
> of are l1on and ramen.. and I haven't seen a hit from either of those for
> a good long time.

These will propagate via vulnerable shares:

01. W32/Funlove.4099,
02. Worm.ExploreZip
03. W32/QAZ.worm,
04. W32/CTX,
05. W32/Cholera.worm,
06. VBS/Netlog.worm.a,
07. W95/Firkin.worm,
08. PWS-BP,
09. W32/MTX@MM,
10. W32/Msinit (Bymer),
11. W32/XTC@MM,
12. VBS/Sorry.a,
13. VBS/Loveletter.CH@mm,
14. W32/SirCam@MM,
15. W32/Hai.worm.

For starters!

Is that enough to scare the crap-ola out of you?

Once again:

If you aren't scanning for open vulnerable shares on your network we all know of at least 15 that are!!!!

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