full-disclosure - BlackWorm technical information

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Date: Tue Jan 24 20:11:25 2006
From: kyphros at gmail.com (Mike Owen)
Subject: BlackWorm technical information

On 1/24/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> The *interesting* question is whether it's possible to use this to count
> the *actual* number of affected machines by excluding all the rubberneckers
> that are visiting the page and hitting "refresh" to see the numbers go up.
> Maybe by looking at the Referer or User-Agent values?
>
>

That's what the Snort rule looks for, a connection to that page
without a Referer: tag. Not perfect, but it works well enough.

Mike