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From: eckman at umn.edu (Brian Eckman)
Subject: Mystery DNS Changes

Gary Flynn wrote:
 >
 >
 > Hansen, Kevin wrote:
 >
 >> We have seen multiple instances where DHCP enabled workstations have had
 >> their DNS reconfigured to point to two of the three addresses listed
 >> below.
 >> Can anyone else confirm this? Incidents.org is reporting an increase
 >> in port
 >> 53 traffic over the last two days. Are we looking at the precursor 
to the
 >> next worm?
 >
 >
 > This is currently being discussed on NTBUGTRAQ too.
 >
 >


McAfee labels it QHosts-1

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719

Brian


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