Re: [unisog] Code Red(s) being confused with sadmind/IIS worm?

From: Paul L Schmehl (paulsat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 16:25:08 PDT

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    --On Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:09 PM -0400 "Stephen W. Thompson" 
    <thompsonat_private> wrote:
    >
    > If I'm correct, that implies a) sadmind/IIS is more prevalent than
    > we'd realized and, possibly b) that there might be a variant of
    > sadmind/IIS that succeeds on non-Solaris machines unlike the original
    > variant.  Any corroboration on (b) from anyone?
    >
    The "signature" of Poisonworm is pretty obvious, and if we were seeing it, 
    our IDS would be alerting on it.  I haven't seen much of it for a while. 
    It seems to have died off a short while after Code Red A became active.
    
    > En paz,
    > Steve, (tired) security analyst
    
    Yeah, no kidding.
    
    Paul L. Schmehl, paulsat_private
    http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
    Supervisor, Support Services
    The University of Texas at Dallas
    AVIEN Founding Member
    
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