Re: why the nimda upsurge again?

From: Dug Song (dugsongat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 20:10:30 PST

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    On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:27:27PM -0500, Jose Nazario wrote:
    
    > in the past week or two i have noticed a strong upsurge in nimda probes
    > and requests, and i know i'm not alone in this. while the bulk of the
    > requests are local (given the mechanism it uses for addressing), several
    > are from outside our network. there is no similar rise appearant in code
    > red v1 or v2.
    
    are you sure it's Nimda you're looking at?
    
    we did see a slight surge in Nimda activity on our blackhole monitor,
    but much smaller than when Nimda.E was introduced at the end of October:
    
    	http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/wormplot.png
    
    -d.
    
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