[Security400] Re: NIMDA Virus - Anyone been affected by it ?

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

We've been helping several folks sort this out. Some AS/400s have been
affected from the point of view of a flood of traffic on the network causing
network outages. Many mail servers have had trouble handling the malformed
messages that can get created. A mess....

Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: "Midrange-L List" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>; <security400@midrange.com>;
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:42 PM
Subject: NIMDA Virus - Anyone been affected by it ?


> Hi folks,
>
> Been doing quite a bit of reading on the NIMDA (Admin spelled backwards,
> it CAN gain Admin level access apparently...) virus, attempting to sort
> between fact and fiction and either way, it seems to be one heck of a
> virus. Infects a bunch of Windows OS's, etc. and attempts to exploits a
> bunch of different vulnerabilities...
>
> Chuck
>
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