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Re: New worm?

  • From: Jon Lewis
  • Date: Fri Apr 22 00:30:25 2005 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Chris Boyd wrote:

> Several machines on a resnet that I consult for have started spewing
> traffic--50Mbits/sec all the way up to line rate.  We're working on
> discoing the affected machines and getting traffic characteristics.

Why new worm?  What makes you think they're not just bots participating in
a DDoS?

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