Hello,

You might want to scan for the 'W95/Sircam.worm@mm' virus, it's side
effects are that it shuts down IIS services every couple of minutes.

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Regards,

Terrence Koeman

Technical Director/Administrator
MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Madscientist
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 00:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IIS 5 - Chinese Worm
>
>
> We saw that on the IIS4 box we have.
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of IMail Admin
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> | BC Web
> | Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:55 PM
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IIS 5 - Chinese Worm
> |
> |
> | We were apparently hit by this, but it didn't work exactly as
described.
> | I'm not sure if we got hit by something else at the same time
> | (coincidence)
> | or if the worm was unable to fully infect us, so it just go part way.
> |
> | In our case, the worm causes all our web services to stop.  That is,
the
> | www, ftp, smtp, and similar services were stopped.  If we
> restarted them,
> | they would be stopped again within a few seconds.  We applied the
> | recommended MS patch (01-033), and that seems to have stopped
> the attack.
> |
> | Did anyone else see symptons like ours?  Also, the patches block
> | the attach,
> | but I'm wondering how to actually remove any infecting files from our
> | systems.
> |
> | Ben Bednarz
> | BC Web
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "David Setzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:56 PM
> | Subject: [IMail Forum] IIS 5 - Chinese Worm
> |
> |
> | > Slightly off topic but I know alot of us are running IIS 5.
> | This hit 5 of
> | > our servers this am.  Uses the same seed to generate random IPs for
> | > additional targets so early infected machines get hit with each new
> | > infectee.  Patch seems to have worked.  M$ support lines busy,
> | hard to get
> | > through.
> | >
> | > http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AL20010717.html
> | >
> | http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q300/9/72.asp?id=
> 300972&SD=
> > MSKB
> >
> > David
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