Re: Off-topic - Worm

[Samuel Held <Held@RHIP.PHYS.UTK.EDU>]

Brian,
        Actually, the alert warns of the increase of Trojan Horses being
found.  There are so many because each hacker has there own.  This is
not just the specific worm you mentioned, which is different from a
Horse because is stationary.  However, the worm is also dangerous.  The
link to the alert I mentioned is

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-02-Trojan-Horses.html
and it discusses all Horses in general not just a specific one.  There
are links to there bulletins relating to security in it.  Hope that
helps keep the little hackers off your network.


Sam Held



-----Original Message-----
From: brian whatcott [mailto:inet@INTELLISYS.NET]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 10:26 PM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: Off-topic - Worm


At 20:52 2/5/99 -0500, Sam wrote:
> ... I received an alert
> on the rise of Trojan Horses from CERT (Computer Emergency Response
> Team).  If there is enough interest I will post the URL ...
> Sam Held

I expect Sam had in mind the worm currently going the rounds as a list
attachment, described here:
=A0
 http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html=20

Brian



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK