Re: am i being wormed? aaugh!

[Frank Zimmermann <F.Zimmermann@bham.ac.uk>]

David Purton wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
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> > About 15 mins ago it began hitting my subnet 210.x.x.x ... all Red 2
> > packets.
>
> Gee - must be my lucky day...
>
> guess what subnet my isp uses :)
>
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> > I was getting random hits this morning, 5 hrs or so ago with one every 6
> > mins.
> > Now its down to every 30 secs.
> >
> > I looked up some of the IPs... most are in SE Asia, but some are in large
> > corps here in Australia.  I can see some severance pay cheques coming
> > around.
> >
> > Ian


There is tool that helps to slow down the virus at:

http://www.hackbusters.net/CodeRedneck.tgz

Funny thing is that Linux users help preventing a worm from 
spreading that  only infects MS servers :-))

Frank