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Re: [fd] AW: [Full-Disclosure] attacks shutting down windows machines? 

I wouldn't go by such anecdotal evidence as shutdown/reboot times.  Check
your event viewer logs for RPC/DCOM errors, monitor your network traffic,
check for the suspicious files on the systems, scan for the ports opened by
the worm, etc....

Mike

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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:14 AM
Subject: [fd] AW: [Full-Disclosure] attacks shutting down windows machines?


> > Are they getting the windows shut down prompt? If so I would suggest
> > that they aren't patched against the RPC DCOM vul and are infected or
> > even if they aren't getting a prompt I think it's still
> > highly possible
>
> Yes, it looks very much like the worm. However, someone here mentioned
that
> it takes about 1 min. for windos to crash (can't they do even that right?
:)
> ).
> What we are seing are very rapid reboots, at most 20 seconds.
>
>
> I'll put it on the worm for now.
>
>
> Tom Vogt
>
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