Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

2004-01-29 Thread Papp Geza
Hello WolfgangK , 2004. január 29., 6:34:49, írtad: Experience shows that programmers are quick to "improve" upon initial code, modifying and releasing variants (note Sobig and now Mydoom.b - http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,89494,00.html?SKC=news89494 ).

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

2004-01-29 Thread Collin R. Mulliner
Hi, > That'd be an interesting defense. Has anyone tried renaming > their incoming MX machine so that it includes one of these strings? I think all email addresses which contain the unwanted strings are filtered out before asking for the mx host for a specific domain - so this defense wont work.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

2004-01-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: perfect storm averted or just ahead?

2004-01-29 Thread Roelof Temmingh
> 2. It would be difficult for a malicious programmer, cyber terrorists or > cyber activists to target a specific environment and protect others ( Eg., > launch denial of service against SCO.com because I like LINUX and don’t like > SCO legal actions. Protect my computer at Berkley.edu because I

[Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: perfect storm averted or just ahead?

2004-01-29 Thread Computer Security
Worms traveling across the Internet are like waves rolling and swelling across an ocean. Just because the first swell does not catch inundate a network, one should not assume invincibility to next wave in the perfect storm. Reports vary in Mydoom.a – generated traffic; between 1 in 7-12 Emails

[Full-Disclosure] Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

2004-01-28 Thread WolfgangK
Title: Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Worms traveling across the Internet are like waves rolling and swelling across an ocean.  Just because the first swell does not catch inundate a network, one should not assume invincibility to next wave in the perfect storm. Report vary in M