why not place it on a switch by itself and then dump the interface to
see what is going out !

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:00:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How exactly did they come to this conclusion?  Reading up on the virus
> > it appears to only run and infect Windows systems ...
> >
> > http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100401
> >
> > I know corporate IT people are often very quick to blame any sort of
> > abnormal behaviour on a perfectly fine Linux box, but that seems like an
> > extreme accusation.
> 
> That's what I thought first. This worm should be windows specific. I did
> few quick checkup, everything seemed to be normal. I then reconnected my
> machine to network. Within 10 minutes, I got call from the support guy
> asking me whether I have reconnected. I was told two more machines just
> got infected. For some stupid reasons (I couldn't even remember now) I did
> not save my ethereal snapshot of traffic going out of my eth0 during that
> time (DAMN!) so I can't prove anything. But from my memory there were few
> announcement/browse packets from samba sent out. Right now, I am really
> hesitant to reconnect my machine to the network for further testing,
> before I have some clues of what has happened. I really don't want to piss
> them off. Ever since that MBlaster worm... ;-)
> 
> Xun.
> 
> >
> > -i
> 
> 
> 
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