Re: CRIME SQLSlammer Worm

From: tobyhush@private
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 21:53:12 PST

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    Actually,
    I'm pretty sure eEye saw it and named it first. They at least had the first public analysis of it that I saw...
    Saphire sounds better anyway.
    ;)
    
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    On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:05:34 -0800 Andrew Plato <aplato@private> wrote:
    >Anybody else notice the interesting little war going on with this
    >worm. I believe ISS was the first to report the worm and they named
    >it SQL Slammer.
    >
    >But then other companies jumped on it and gave in their own name.
    >
    >
    >So now the worm has like 12 different names. ISS calles it SQL
    >Slammer, eEye and F-Secure call it Sapphire, Symantec calls it
    >SQLexp, and Kaspersky labes calls it Helkern, and Trend Micro has
    >the
    >most elegant name SQLP1434.A (which sounds more like an asteroid
    >then
    >a worm).
    >
    >I kind of liked Slammer - seeing as how it did slam the Internet
    >pretty hard. Sapphire sounds like a porn star and Helkern sounds
    >like
    >a German beer.
    >
    >Seems kinda petty to me, but when have security firms been above
    >pettiness?
    >
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