RE: Second wave of Nimda?

From: Megyesi, Heather (HEATHERMat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 13:17:03 PDT

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    I've seen the same thing....
    in a couple of different places...
    Cert is also showing an advisory
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    W32/Nimda
    The CERT/CC continues to receive a steady stream of reports of W32/Nimda
    although the volume of reports has dropped significantly since it first
    appeared on September 18th. However, the W32/Nimda worm contains code that
    will cause an infected host to send infected email messages every 10 days.
    Hosts that were initially infected on Tuesday, September 18th and not
    recovered could start sending another round of messages tomorrow, September
    28th. 
    
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tracey Losco [mailto:tal1at_private]
    Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:26 PM
    To: incidentsat_private
    Subject: Second wave of Nimda?
    
    
    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?0927ale
    rt
    
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    Tracey Losco
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    ITS - Network Services			http://www.nyu.edu/its/security
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