Has anyone heard of this and is there any merit in its possibility? In the code for the worm, there was a "get system time" call...I was wondering whether or not it was for computations or whether it was a timer....it this is true, it looks like it was a timer.... Researchers say Nimda set to propagate again By Deborah Radcliff, Computerworld online September 27, 2001 10:52 am PT RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED a third vector to the Nimda worm, which is set to propagate again through e-mail at 1 a.m. ET Friday. The website is located: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/27/010927hnnimbda.xml?0927alert -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracey Losco Network Security Analyst securityat_private ITS - Network Services http://www.nyu.edu/its/security New York University (212) 998 - 3433 PGP Fingerprint: 8FFB FE47 6156 7BF0 B19E 462B 9DFE 51F5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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