14 Sep
2001
14 Sep
'01
11:29 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Ejay Hire wrote:
My Honeypot was infected with a new self-replicating worm yesterday. It appears to check for open win95/98/me netbios shares with read/write permission and installs wininit.exe (the scanner/infector) and the distributed.net client (In quiet Mode).
Matches the MO of W32.HLLW.Bymer, a pretty old one that hit my parents' PC a while back: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.bymer.html -- Jeff Gehlbach, Concord Communications <jgehlbach@concord.com> Senior Professional Services Consultant, Atlanta ph. 770.384.0184 fax 770.384.0183