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Re: Code Red Hammering Away


From: Sameh Ghane <sw () anthologeek net>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:24:29 +0200


Le (On) Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Bob K ecrivit (wrote):

4:53:48pm|melange@host:/home/melange> grep default.ida /var/log/httpd-access.log | grep XXXXX | wc -l
       6

I've started seeing LOTS of XXXXX hits as of approx 1 hour ago.
5 in one hour and counting...

Just for reference, here's the logs of this new variant:

Pretty interesting, maybe all nanog-post subscribers could share their
experience with this worm too. Especially if you've seen a lot of non-[XN]
alphanumerical chars.

Sorry, but this worm caused more damages to mailing lists than anything
else, on the Internet. Looks more like a chain-letter...


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