Re: Nimda probes from way off IP addresses

From: Brett Glass (brettat_private)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 13:31:01 PDT

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    At 12:20 PM 9/21/2001, Steve Cody wrote:
    
    >It has been my understanding that the Nimda probes to web servers were
    >always from nearby IP address blocks.
    
    Not always. The worm merely devotes much MORE of its efforts to nearby
    addresses.
    
    Nimda apparently makes very frequent attacks upon the local Class B,
    fewer upon the local Class A, and fewer still upon the rest of the Net.
    But it can attack any address.
    
    --Brett Glass
    
    
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