[lug] Code Rainbow: New attack, MUCH nastier...

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Sean Reifschneider
> Starting at around 7am mountain time this morning (you know, exactly a week
> from last Tuesday at 9am eastern time) a new Code-Red-like worm has started
> pounding the heck out of the network.  It's interesting to note that there
> wasn't really a ramp-up time, at 7:20am or so mountain time we just
> suddenly started getting pounded on at around 40KB/sec.  New, around 2.5
> hours later it's up to 60KB/sec.
> 
> They're calling it "Code Rainbow":
> 
>    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170225.html

Ick.  Why don't I see any attempts in my logs?  I can see the cable modem
data light flashing away like gangbusters, but no DENY notes in my logs.
Have I yet *another* thing to turn on in my RH 7.1 configuration?  *sigh* 

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