Re: Worm and Virus attack

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From: Colin Bloch
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:30

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werner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu wrote:
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> 	sometimes I can't help but wonder is such worms are written by
> 	people who are disgusted with deficiencies in current computing
> 	platforms: talking to MicroSloth (and sendmail, for that matter)

Sendmail is an MTA & whatever security issues its had in the past
have had nothing to do with the spread of worms.

> 	this particular attack is targetting the USEnet community as

No its not.

> 	a whole (those who don't post there should see little... and

No they shouldn't.

It spreads through Kazaa, Email, mapped drives, IRC and yes, will
randomly post to newsgroups on your configured news server (or
just pick one if you don't have one configured.)  However there
is no "targeting" nor any group at risk more than any other.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html

CAB

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From: Colin Bloch <colin@NOSPAMgrandecom.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,austin.internet
Subject: Re: Worm and Virus attack
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:30:38 -0500
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