full-disclosure - Pinging... And lots of it..

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Message-ID: <637628112.1061516067@localhost>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Pinging... And lots of it..

--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 19:33:06 -0400 Calvyn <Calvyn@...y.rr.com> 
wrote:

> Hey people,
>
> 	At around 3:30 today my campus lite up like a Christmas tree. I
> have hundreds of computers pinging each other all over campus. Luckily
> none of them are from the subnet that I administer. :) I did some
> searchin but didn't read about any of the new worms using ICMP. Anyone
> have any ideas?

You've got Nachi.  The third variant of the RPC DCOM worm.  See any AV 
vendor's webpage for details, but you've got fun ahead of you for sure.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu