full-disclosure - Web counter in the new Swen/Gibe.F worm

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From: lists at onryou.com (Cael Abal)
Subject: Web counter in the new Swen/Gibe.F worm

> I was tracking the number of infected computers, but around 4:30am Pacific
> the counter was replaced with a GIF image reading:
> 
> WARNING: Your computer may
> be infected by W32/Swen@MM worm.
> It's no joke. See mcaffee.com for info.
> 
> The last good number I have for the hit count was 1,576,803 at 4:30am.
> 
> It's a shame the counter was replaced, this gave us a good idea of how
> many hosts were infected and could reveal real numbers of the rate of
> infection - I'm still recieving these emails, over 100 overnight.
> 
> Maybe the admins of vutbr.cz would open their web logs to give us more
> accurate information about the point of origin and rate of spread.
> 
> If anyone wants the numbers I collected (I have data from the 18th at
> 13:56 through 4:30am today) I'd be happy to provide them.

Correction -- it *would've* been valuable, if the url hadn't been 
publicized.  As it is, the only useful information would have to come 
from the vutbr.cz web logs.  Without stripping out all the polluting 
GETs from web browsers the data is meaningless...  Thankfully we've got 
user agents to filter by.

Incidentally, it might be valuable to carefully scrutinize those web 
logs -- there's an excellent chance that the first non-worm-originated 
hit of that web counter came from the worm's creator.

Cael