Re: What exactly might this do? (Nimda virus!)

2001-09-20 Thread Kimberly McKinnis
oi oi oi. this is the new nimda virus. ntbugtraq has been talking all about it. a few quick links for you to read up on. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D253 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/18/151203&mode=thread this is

Antw: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Milan Goellner
>>> Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18.09.01 19:54:16 >>> >I viewed the default web page on a machine known to be infected with Code >Red II. In doing so, another browser window that appeared to be blank >popped open, and the address in the title bar the name 'readme.eml' >appeared. When I viewed the s

Re: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Yaakov Yehudi
You have also been infected by the Nimida ("admin" backwards) virus. Yaakov Yehudi Security Administrator Project Tehila Israel Ministry Of Finance 1 Kaplan St. Jerusalem Israel - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: September 18, 2001 19:54

Re: port 80 not resolving

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Wilcox
Thanks. After two hours of troubleshooting everthing imaginable, it came down to being the Nimda virus. Strangly, it wasn't the IIS servers that were affected (they are all patched, etc), but the massive amount of traffic caused by Nimda was overloading Apache on the Linux servers. Fixed it by

Mysterious folder in Win2000 A.S.

2001-09-20 Thread Birl
Running Windows 2000 Advanced Server (no Service Packs). Found a mysterious folder under C:\Documents and Settings\ called $ ie: BlackBox-01$ since the name of the computer is BlackBox-01. What catches my attention: 1) Not all of the servers that are running Win2000 A.S. have this

email certificates

2001-09-20 Thread satyam
Hi all. I have a 3 site intranet connected over private leased lines. we are usng MS exchange servers at all 3 sites & Outlook 2000 for about 100 clients. how do I issue digital certificates to the mail so that we can eliminate paper & signatures on paper & use e-mail for all important work. this

Removal of NIMDA worm

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Jones
Recieved from another list, relatied to Nimda worm. HTH!! I am not sure if anyone has posted this info yet but we were able to figure out how to remove the W32.Nimda.A@mm from Windows 95/98. So far it has been effective, 1) boot in DOS mode 2) edit system.ini file in c:\windows 3) look for this

RE: FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD

2001-09-20 Thread Gaziel, Avishay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm going to install one of the *bsd's for the first time. I have experience with *nix like, OS's and of course security. I'll be glad to have some refferences regarding: 1. where to get the most up-to-date code and patches. 2. some "install

RE: Hard drive encryption

2001-09-20 Thread Matt Block
> -Original Message- > From: Joost De Cock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > "Neither keys nor > passwords are stored > on the PC's hard disk. " > and furthermore: > "Finally, a secure challenge/ response procedure is available > to re-issue > the password, if a PC has been blocked beca

Re: Ping of Death seg faulting Snort?

2001-09-20 Thread walter valenti
I'm tried with Snort 1.8.1 on Debian Linux... but ther'isnt problem. I'v not some strange set of Snort. I use like snort -dev Walter > I just started playing around with Snort a few days ago... > Today, I had just compiled it on my laptop running Slackware 7.1. > I then started Snort a

Antw: snort portscan detects a scan from my primary DNS usingsource prot53?

2001-09-20 Thread Milan Goellner
>>> somogyi lorand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 19.09.01 15:03:58 >>> >Hi, >I'm wondering if this is normal behaviour. >My primary DNS is on x.x.x.x, and my ip is >y.y.y.y. Snort portscan.log extr.: > > >Sep 19 10:41:05 x.x.x.x:53 -> y.y.y.y:32783 UDP >Se

ipchains, ipmasqadm - changed question

2001-09-20 Thread Daniel Chojecki
Hi ! Sorry I`ve made a mistake in my prevoius post :-( Is it posible to redirect all traffic comming for 0.0/0 80 to remote ^^ squid proxy using ipchains and ipmasqadm. Here is what I try to use: ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp

RE: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall

2001-09-20 Thread Jeff Miller
Hardware. It runs on a specialized Cisco box. -Original Message- From: satyam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall Hi what is Cisco PIX a s/w or h/w firewall? regards dp-newbie

RE: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall

2001-09-20 Thread Leytens Francois X.
PIX are the Cisco firewall. This is a pure hardware firewall. Check the following URLs http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/fw/sqfw500/ http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/fw.htm They are layer 2-3 firewall working more like ACL mode than any other firewall Regards Francois **

Re: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Paul Hosking
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 19:54, Jeff wrote: > Can anybody tell me what purpose this might serve? > > --=_1000846456==_ > > > cid:EA4DMGBP9p height=0 width=0> Hi Jeff. You have is a piece of the nimda worm. You can find lots of discussions and writeups on it right now (to i

Re: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Sim
My mistake earlier, Google.com had indeed not been infected with the virus. They had just problems with their WAP (mobile phones, etc..) code on their front page. the file extension was awfully similar to the .eml which is that used by the virus thats running about. Michael Jeff wrote: > I view

RE: Time Synchronization

2001-09-20 Thread Frank Heyne
On 18 Sep 01, at 11:05, Hatley, Brian D. wrote: > I have not seen any response yet that actually addresses Fabian's stated > objective to NOT give his users those permissions... While I was unable to > get it to work without those permissions, has anyone else worked this out? Yes, it is describ

Re: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Sim
ammending a minor error in what i posted previously. Systems Affected: Systems running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000 Basically it preys upon a bug of I.E. and outlook to automatically execute .eml files my bad. Michael Jeff wrote: > I viewed the default web page on a machine know

Re: What exactly might this do?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael Sim
What you have got there is one of the latest self propogating viruses, it can be read about at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-26.html What it does (for those that cant be bothered reading the advisory. Is scan through your subnet (class c, b, or a) and for each IP it finds it tried to d

Re: snort portscan detects a scan from my primary DNS using sourceprot 53?

2001-09-20 Thread Korhan GURLER
On 19 Sep 2001, somogyi lorand wrote: // Hi, // I'm wondering if this is normal behaviour. Yes, this is normal behavior. If you want to avoid you must add your DNS server in snort.conf like: var DNS_SERVERS x.x.x.x and then you must uncomment the line preprocessor portscan-ignorehosts: $DNS_S

Peoplesoft

2001-09-20 Thread Gustavo Fried
Hi all, Do you know any software that add auditability (when a new users is created, change of rights, etc.)to Peoplesoft. Also any software that define password policies, that enforce the periodic change of passwords within Peoplesoft. Thanks for your comments, Gustavo

Re: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall

2001-09-20 Thread chris home
Cisco is using the PIX software on it's 'network appliance' firewall. I have seen PIX used on a NOKIA firewall. very powerful firewall rulesets. enjoy learning how to configure them! >From: "satyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewal

Locating devices on a network

2001-09-20 Thread Nils Kristian Kristiansen
Hello all! I would like to know how to locate a device on my network. The only thing I know is the IP-address, and I would really like to know what switch and portnumber the device is connected to. Thanks! Best regards Nils Kristiansen

Re: Windows 2000 Questions

2001-09-20 Thread Michael J. Cannon
http://www.itpapers.com/cgi/SubcatIT.pl?scid=277 http://secinf.net/info/unix/lance/nt.html http://secinf.net/iwine.html http://www.8wire.com/articles/?AID=2100 http://www.neohapsis.com/neolabs/Tech_Docs/wins.htm (outdated, but still somewhat useful, since, in most enterprises with mixed NT and

Scanning for name based sites

2001-09-20 Thread Chang Kim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are some of the different ways NameServers are compromised? There are many levels of scanning from simple reverse lookups to nmap, I have not seen anything in terms of some way of scanning for virtually hosted/name based sites (on a simple IP).

Problems analyzing HTTP traffic in CVP configuration

2001-09-20 Thread Rivera Alonso, David
Dear list, We've got TrendMicro's Interscan v.3.6 in a CVP configuration with CheckPoint 4.1sp4. We've configured this squeme to analyze all incoming HTTP traffic that crosses the FW. The problem is that now we can navigate certain URLs (Webs) but not others. Have you got any idea? any HOWTO to

RE: path disclosure

2001-09-20 Thread Tony Welsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -Original Message- From: Greg Ardpic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2001 14:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: path disclosure Hello A friend of mine said that my IIS server has path disclosure vulnerability. So i wonder

RE: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall

2001-09-20 Thread Luke LeBoeuf
Hard Ware with proprietary IOS. Luke S. LeBoeuf Riptech, Inc. Real-Time Information Protection (c)703.593.6127 (e)[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.riptech.com/ -Original Message- From: satyam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: ipchains, ipmasqadm

2001-09-20 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Daniel Chojecki wrote: > Is it posible to redirect all traffic comming for 0.0/0 80 to local > squid proxy using ipchains and ipmasqadm. Using ipchains - yes. I'm not sure for ipmasqadm (I've never used it) I'm using those lines for that. Of course, you have to enable 'IP

Re: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 03:47, TD - Sales International Holland B.V. wrote: > you'll get scared hehe, besides that, like you already mentioned, IIS has a > lot of security problems, I believe there were over 30 in the first half of > this year alone. Next to that, Linux admins tend to know more th

Re: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 01:55, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > control over what the system does. They don't try to do the right thing > irrespective of what the admin says. So that line shoule be read as > *nix machines are more easily securable than NT machines. ... depending on the services being deploye

Windows 98 Sniffer

2001-09-20 Thread Jim Gaudet, MCSE
Hello All, I have a home computer that I would like to run some networking utilities, such as sniffers, on. Can anyone recommend any applications that will not take up too many resources, but give me good info on the analyzer? Thanks in advance. Jim

RE: Running more than one service on one box

2001-09-20 Thread Dustin Puryear
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 17:30, Peter Mueller wrote: > > default install of popular Linux distributions. > > As you know default installs are not considered secure by anyone in the > security business. They are not a measure of security in any way shape or > form. For those interested, we recently

Re: nmap-spoofing-question

2001-09-20 Thread didldadl
When using this command, the IP snort spits out is always the one given with "-S", but in the /var/log/messages i can see a lookup for the real IP of the machine which is doing the scan. So I don't really believe, that it's binding another one. I tried to have a closer look in the headers with sno