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Fax to vendor
by Andrea Moran 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks

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NZNOG Posting Policy
by Donald Neal 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

NZNOG People, At present, NZNOG accepts postings from anywhere. A previous effort to switch to accepting mail only from subscribed addresses was abandoned due to the inconveince caused. If anyone wishes another attempt made at that change, please contact me directly. Donald Neal List Administrator -- Donald Neal Mobility & Calling Platforms Network Delivery Telecom New Zealand Ltd --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Antigen found Win32.SirCam.137216 (CA(Vet)) virus
by Antigen 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Blank vendor letter.doc~pif infected with Win32.SirCam.137216 (CA(Vet)) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Blank vendor letter", was sent from Andrea Moran and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at JUNIPER/AMERICAS/BETA. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Antigen found Win32.SirCam.137216 (CA(Vet)) virus
by Antigen 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found Fax to vendor.doc~bat infected with Win32.SirCam.137216 (CA(Vet)) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fax to vendor", was sent from Andrea Moran and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at JUNIPER/AMERICAS/BETA. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Fax to vendor
by Steven Perich 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Guys, Anyone with half a brain who's concerned about security wouldn't open this, I know, but I thought I'ld inform the masses of this as a friendly, public service announcement :-) Scan type: Realtime Protection Scan Event: Virus Found! Virus name: W32.Sircam.Worm(a)mm File: Fax to vendor.doc.bat Location: Mail System Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine succeeded : Date found: Tue Jul 24 09:22:26 2001 Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Andrea Moran > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 09:06 > To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: Fax to vendor > > > Hi! How are you? > > I send you this file in order to have your advice > > See you later. Thanks > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Fax to vendor
by Greg Clare 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

WARNING:- This message contained a virus (W32.Sircam.Worm(a)mm). For more details refer:- http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/aab56492973adccd882569450055235 5/f75929f63f73df5f882569a80022dbd0?OpenDocument Norton Virus definitions dated 17 July 2001 or later will detect this recent worm. Regards Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Moran [mailto:andrea(a)petrinamoran.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2001 9:06 am > To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: Fax to vendor > > > Hi! How are you? > > I send you this file in order to have your advice > > See you later. Thanks > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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(no subject)
by AngelaMcIntee＠aol.com 22 Jul '01

22 Jul '01

Can anyone tell me the physical address of the Sprint NAP in Pennsauken, NJ? Thanks, Angela --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Julian Angelo - Conclusion
by Donald Neal 22 Jul '01

22 Jul '01

<Multimedia>If you wish this posting to be a multimedia experience, go to http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/lart-lart-lart-the-spamme… and sing the contents of that page to yourself while reading.</Multimedia> NZNOG People, Three days ago I posted to this list, saying >Just over a year ago, there was discussion on this list of spamming by >one Julian Angelo. He has now approached me, asking to have these >references removed from the NZNOG archive. It seems that prospective >employers who look up his name on the web find these archive entries, a >fact which may not be helping his career any. >If any network operator has an objection to these entries being removed >from the archive, could they please contact me directly. I had a number of reasons for doing things in this way. For one thing, I do not see myself as owner in the usual sense of that word of this list or its archive. For another, the content of email sent to me in response to such an enquiry might conceivably be actionable. I also take the view that spammers are thieves who must be shown the error of their ways and encouraged to live useful, constructive lives. I am in principle very happy with the idea of editing the names of the guilty out of publicly-readable archives a suitable period after their offending ceases. The chance to gain useful employment would then be one of the reasons why they would give up their vile activities in the first place. My request to be contacted directly was followed by close to fifty emails to the list. Some had particularly disappointing content. The acceptable use policy for this list states that character assassination is unacceptable. It also states that discussion unrelated to Internet technical and operational matters is not appropriate. Discussions of a legal nature are particularly discouraged. This has not been a good week for this list's s/n ratio, nor for constructive discussion. I am all in favour of a certain amount of humour of questionable relevance, but there was little of that here. The only such contribution was Matt Camp's, which observed "I'm sure there's a lesson there. f33r the far-reaching p0w3rz of NZNOG! [...] we shall [...] smite the career prospects of spammers and script kiddies with our flaming LARTting tool of justice!" I have doubts about his spelling of LARTing, but I too am sure there's a lesson here. As I've already said, I see publicity and its withdrawal as a useful tool in encouraging spammers into the paths of righteousness. Regrettably, the point was not taken up by others. My thanks to those who did respond directly to me. The suggestion that by altering the archive's contents on any occasion I might become responsible for all of its content was one I had not previously considered. Other opinions expressed fell into two groups. Some subscribers believed that an apology was called for before Mr Angelo's name was removed from the archive, while others felt that archives should not ever be altered. Some of this latter group observed that archiving an apology from Julian Angelo would give prospective employers a full piucture of events. I count four subscribers in the first group and thirteen in the second. Removing from the count people I believe not to be staff of network operators, and the subscriber who expressed both opinions, leaves three in the first group and eight in the second. I feel myself to be bound by this expression of the views of subscribers, and will not seek to have the archives changed. At no point has anyone even implied to me that Julian Angelo has done anything wrong since the events of July 2000. I went into this thinking that was the question. Donald Neal List Administrator/Muggins <Multimedia>You can stop singing now.</Multimedia> -- Donald Neal Mobility & Calling Platforms Network Delivery Telecom New Zealand Ltd --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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[dranch@trinnet.net: How the IIS Red Worm works..]
by Dean Pemberton 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

> so which ISP in Wellington was it that is reported to have lost its servers > as a result of thei worm (reported in the Herald).... and did it really > infect/affect 250000 sites? > > Ian Dunno about the first one - but there is a portion in this article that talks to your second point. Dean ----- Forwarded message ----- Interesting.. From http://www.w2knews.com/subscribe.cfm?id=W2K -- Explanation As stated earlier the .ida "Code Red" worm is spreading throughout IIS Web servers on the Internet via the .ida buffer-overflow attack that was published last month. The following are the steps that the worm takes once it has infected a vulnerable Web server: Setup initial worm environment on infected system. Setup 100 threads of the worm. Use the first 99 threads to spread the worm (infect other Web servers). � The worm spreads itself by creating a sequence of random IP addresses. However, the worm's list of IP addresses to attack is not all together random. In fact, there seems to be a static seed (a beginning IP address that is always the same) that the worm uses when generating new IP addresses. Therefore every computer infected by this worm is going to go through the same list of "random" IP addresses. Because of this feature, the worm will end up re-infecting the same systems multiple times, and traffic will cross traffic back and forth between hosts ultimately creating a denial-of-service type effect. The denial-of-service will be due to the amount of data being transferred between all of the IP addresses in the sequence of random IP addresses. The worm could have done truly random IP generation and that would have allowed it to infect many more systems much faster. We are not sure why this was not done, but a friend of ours did pose an interesting idea: If the person who wrote this worm owned an IP address that was one of the first hundred or thousand to be scanned, then they could setup a "sniffer" and anytime and IP address tried to connect to port 80 on their server they would get confirmation that the IP address that connected to them was infected with the worm. With this knowledge, they would be able to create a list of the majority of systems that were infected by this worm. The 100th thread checks to see if it is running on an English (US) Windows NT/2000 system. � If the infected system is found to be a English (US) system, the worm will proceed to deface the infected system's website. The local Web server's Web page will be changed to a message that says: "Welcome to http://www.worm.com!, Hacked By Chinese!". This hacked Web page message will stay "live" on the Web server for 10 hours and then disappear. The message will not appear again unless the system is re-infected by another computer. � If the system is not an English (US) Windows NT/2000 system, the 100th worm thread is also used to infect other systems. Each worm thread checks for c:\notworm. � If the file c:\notworm is found, the worm goes dormant. � If the file is not found, each thread will continue to attempt to infect more systems. Each worm thread checks the infected computer's system time. � If the date is past the 20th of the month (GMT), the thread will stop searching for systems to infect and will instead attack www.whitehouse.gov. The attack consists of the infected system sending 100k bytes of data (1 byte at a time + 40 bytes overheard for the actually TCP/IP packet) to port 80 of www.whitehouse.gov. This flood of data (410 megabytes of data every 4 and a half hours per instance of the worm) would potentially amount to a denial-of- service attack against www.whitehouse.gov. � If the date is between the 1st and the 19th of the month, this worm thread will not attack www.whitehouse.gov and will continue to try to find and infect new Web servers. We have calculated that the worm can attempt to infect roughly half a million IP addresses a day. This is a rough estimate generated by testing on a very slow network. At the time of writing this document (July 19th, 3:00pm), we have had reports from administrators that have been probed by over 196 thousand unique hosts. This leads us to believe that this worm has infected at least 196 thousand computers. During testing we noticed that sometimes the worm does not execute "normally" and will continue to spawn new threads until the infected machine crashes and has to be rebooted, effectively killing itself. We have not been able to isolate the cause of this behavior. ----- End forwarded message ----- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: the .ida "Code Red" worm - ISP suffers?
by PhoneNet 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

so which ISP in Wellington was it that is reported to have lost its servers as a result of thei worm (reported in the Herald).... and did it really infect/affect 250000 sites? Ian --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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