full-disclosure - Re: New virus

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:43:04 +0545
From: "Bipin Gautam" <gautam.bipin@...il.com>
To: "Joel R. Helgeson" <joel@...geson.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: New virus - possible rootkit

> This appears to be an IRC bot that encrypts its traffic to fly beneath the
> radar. What makes it more interesting is that the directories it creates
> have SYSTEM ownership and only system and creator/owner can access the
> files.  Changing permissions on the files or directorys will only be changed
> back.  It also appears that if you remove the file, it will start revoking
> permissions on all files and will remove everyones but SYSTEM's permission
> to all files.
>

i've been talking abt this for abt a year now... Sometimes BEFORE
there was a worm who exploited the features of EFS in NTFS, winxp
now.... this threat.

http://72.14.203.104/search?hl=zh-TW&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fbipin.securityhead.com%2Fall.html

-- 

Bipin Gautam
http://bipin.tk

Zeroth law of security: The possibility of poking a system from lower
privilege is zero unless & until there is possibility of direct,
indirect or consequential communication between the two...

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