[Am-info] BADTRANS WORM LEAVES BACKDOORS, LOGS DATA

[Erick Andrews]

Oh.  I read the article and found out that it's an Outlook
Express thing.

This is not an Internet worm...it's a MICROSOFT worm...travelling
through the Internet and probably private LAN's, too!


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:22:16 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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>BADTRANS WORM LEAVES BACKDOORS, LOGS DATA
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>November 26, 2001 09:42 AM
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>A NEW VARIANT of a mass-mailer Internet worm that
>installs a backdoor program which can allow attackers
>to access recipients' computers was spreading on the
>Internet Monday, according to virus alerts from a
>number of antivirus companies.
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>For Full Story:                                         
>http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/26/011126hnbadtrans.xml?1126alert
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Erick Andrews