[plug] Anyone seen this new Welchia worm yet?

[Jacqueline McNally]

Chris Caston wrote:

> Checkout W32.Welchia.C.Worm. It uses about 4 different known exploits. O
> I expect to be cleaning this thing up for people soon.
> 
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.c.worm.html 
> As usual Linux is not affected :)

Neither is DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 
98, and Windows Me according to the provided link.

Makes me think that a lot of peope using legacy and unsupported Windows 
systems /don't/ have to upgrade to XP for security reasons ;-P

What was curious. Is this worm wants to clean up two other worms. Can't 
rely on anyone else's dodgy worm ...

All the best
Jacqueline McNally
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