[lug] worm article

[Carl.Wagner at Level3.com]

Is that the proper link?  It was talking about RH 5.2 as being new.  
The date at the top was Dec 98.

I would assume that they plugged the IMAP hole, but I am sure that more and
more
people are trying to attack Linux boxes as Linux is gaining market share.

Firewalls are a good thing!
Carl.

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> I've noticed some more recent attempts to get into my rpc ports (beyond
> port scans) recently, and ran into this article which might explain it
> some. People might be interested in it, it is a worm against redhat 6.2
> and 7. Fortunately, I'm an ipchains fanatic, and the only thing these
> attempts resulted in were domain bans from my machine.
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-335936.html?tag=st.ne.ni.rnbot.rn.ni
> 
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