[lug] worm article

[D. Stimits]

Carl.Wagner at Level3.com wrote:
> 
> 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
> >

Argggh. This was the wrong one. The relevant link is:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4508359-0.html

I was browsing around at the time and copied the wrong one in.