| Stephen J. Wilcox | Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:15 PM | To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu | Cc: nanog@merit.edu | Subject: Re: Brace yourselves.. W32/Sobig-F about to mutate... | | On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: | | > A quick heads up, if anybody hasn't heard: | > | > At 1900GMT today, ET phones home, and picks up the next payload of | > instructions. Nobody knows (yet) what they'll be, but SoBig-E erased | itself, | > put in a password grabber, and then installed a mail proxy for spammer | use. | | "On this moment, the worm starts to connect to machines found from an | encrypted | list hidden in the virus body. The list contains the address of 20 | computers | located in USA, Canada and South Korea." | | erm so why dont we just block (preferably bgp null route) these sites? I believe that InterNAP has already implemented this in all of their PNAP's. Todd --