1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak

dots and loops writes "Today marks one year to the date that the nimda worm began making its way across the Internet." Hey, speaking of hilarious worms, I'm still getting 5-10 klez virus's a day! Yay Security!

Comments

Still kicking

[JediTrainer]

If anybody is interested, I've developed WormScan last year, which is a Java-based program (GPL) which can analyze your Apache log files for pretty much anything you want (just plug in your regular expressions). It detects Nimda and CR1+2 out of the box. It's easy to add your own entries to scan for.

According to my logs (please be gentle), I've been hit 650 times yesterday.

Shameless plug, yes. But it does the job and the users of WormScan seem to be pretty happy with it, judging from the emails I've gotten so far.

Still getting hit

[rossz]

No doubt in celebration of the birthday, I got a number of nimda hits this morning.

mount -t smbfs password= //xx.xx.xx.xx/C$ /mnt/dork
vi /mnt/dork/boot.ini

Change the boot delay to some huge number and the boot message to "Run a virus scanner, asshole".

umount /mnt/dork

Re:How to block Klez emails from my mailbox?

[Draoi]

Replying to the senders (the From: address) won't work, 'coz it's forged. Klez pulls email addresses from the victim's address book/inbox and uses them for the 'from'. You have to look deeper into the headers to find the culprit.

Here's one I just got;

From: webmaster <webmaster@msn.com>
Date: Wed Sep 18, 2002 15:03:16 Europe/Dublin
To: webmaster@christymoore.net
Subject: User code here
Return-Path: <tony_XXXXXXXX@oceanfree.net>
Received: from bubble.oceanfree.net ([212.2.162.35]) by ddandd.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8IEADp05002 for <webmaster@christymoore.net>; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:10:13 +0100
Received: from [193.203.147.182] (helo=Qrxy) by bubble.oceanfree.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 17rfQB-0002p3-00 for webmaster@christymoore.net; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:03:16 +0100
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Z0z7O8r66243H01338eADBxj05jJ7LLMnHZ85
Me ssage-Id: <E17rfQB-0002p3-00@bubble.oceanfree.net>
Statu s:
Attachments: There is 1 attachment

Do you think this was sent by webmaster@msn.com? (I hear the jokes now!). In this case, the Return-path actually contained the victim's full mail address, which I've mercifully blanked ...