[plug] Anyone seen this new Welchia worm yet?

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Sun Feb 15 22:38:21 WST 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 21:54, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> 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.

Well I'm sure ASN.1 'sploits will take out at least half of the others
;)
(http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040210.html)

regards,

Chris

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