RE: ALEVRIUS!

From: Rob Shein (shotenat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 15:31:32 PST

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    Can you provide a little more information?  Like port numbers?
    UDP/TCP/ICMP?  Anything?  I assume you've checked Google already, so you may
    not have much more than we do at this point.
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Geert Kiers [mailto:kwebat_private] 
    > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:39 PM
    > To: incidentsat_private
    > Subject: ALEVRIUS!
    > 
    > 
    > Greetings:
    > 
    > I'd rather just read the mail and not be a regular.  Too many 
    > auto respondeers coming back at me say "I'm not in until such 
    > and such a time. In case of emergency contact ....", each 
    > time I post but...  I have a problem, I think.
    > 
    > Who or what is ALEVRIUS!
    > 
    > Is it related to ALEVIR or the Opaserv/Opasoft worm?
    > 
    > The reason I ask, we had a number of weird things happening 
    > on our little network this morning so I decided to run MS 
    > Netmon and captue a while.
    > When I finished capturing I did a Find All Names.   and it 
    > discovered a new
    > one:
    > 
    > ALEVRIUS! [no transposition (sp?) error.  It is ALEVRIUS! 
    > with the exclamation mark] associated with a specific ip 
    > address with a valid appearing dynamic DNS name.
    > 
    > Now we run mainly NT servers and I get the sense that if it 
    > is ALEVIR that our hosts may not get infected.  Still I am 
    > scanning our drives for occurances of alevir, scrsvr, brasil, 
    > marco!, instit, mqbkup and mmstask. In all cases hoping (or 
    > not) to find the .exe file which is supposed to be the 
    > driver.  As a last thought, I also searched for alevrius.  
    > All searches were negative.
    > 
    > I did a search of online.securityfoucs.com/archives for both 
    > alevir and alevrius! but found not match.  I assume, then. 
    > that this is either a new topic or one of little importance.  
    > Can anyone enlighten me?
    > 
    > Regards,
    > 
    > Geert
    > 
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