That's what I thought.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] WHAT is THIS?
> I'm thinking this is Nimda. I saw this sort of error message on a Mac
> server log file. It had a few other things with it, too, though this log
> doesn't show it. This is why Nimda is bad for the internet as a whole:
> it probes everything, on port 80 in this case, but I had a sys admin at
> the Pasco County School District tell me that he had printers and
> various other "net-enabled" devices telling him that they wanted to pass
> on this "information" or that they had a port 80. Fortunately, I saw
> this on a Mac server, and thought, hmph, that's interesting. The High
> School (Wesley Chapel) next door (which runs a Windows network) was
> trying to infect us (a Middle School -- Weightman). Also fortunately, it
> generated a lot bad karma for those sys admins at various schools
> throughout Pasco Co. Schools that run Windows...
>
> Russell
>
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