full-disclosure - Urgent Alert: Possible BlackWorm DDay February3rd (Snort signatures included)

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Date: Wed Jan 25 02:51:40 2006
From: prb at lava.net (prb@...a.net)
Subject: Urgent Alert: Possible BlackWorm
	DDay	February3rd (Snort signatures included)

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:49:03 +0100, "ad@...poverflow.com" said:
> 
>>and if the worm doesnt use any vulnerability, how come it has been so
>>widely spreaded ?

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> It doesn't exploit a *software* vuln, but a *wetware* one...

Well put. I suppose one could argue that when it comes to sex, this worm 
is proof that people never learn, but I'm a little more optimistic. By 
the time February 3 rolls around, perhaps a million will be infected. 
That's not chicken feed, but it's not very many in the overall scheme of 
things, either. And who knows, of that million, perhaps half will get it 
cleaned up before it starts corrupting data. That makes "only" half a 
million computers wiped out. Of that half million, perhaps 2 or 3 made 
backups; so it's not so bad. ;)
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