full-disclosure - Worm side effects

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Message-ID: <87brudcw0e.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Worm side effects

"Geo." <geoincidents@...info.org> writes:

> I think I know why the worm used 92 byte icmp echos.

AFAIK, the worm uses a standard Windows routine to generate those ICMP
packets.