Re: Worm in Java on site?

by "N. Whittley" <nwhittley(at)cinci.rr.com>

Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:45:40 -0500
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>, "Michael I. Bitton" <mbitton(at)mibdevelopment.com>
References:	mibdevelopment
	todo: View Thread, Original

One of the worms that was passing around was accessing vunerable web servers
and
attaching itself to websites a while back.
W32/Nimda.gen@MM   you can read about it here:
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99209&

Make sure you copy and paste this as it may not keep that & at the end.

Not saying that is the one, but that is the only one I remember that was
infecting websites.

Nancy


> Greetings,
>
> One of my clients received a message stating "There is a Worm Virus in
your
> Java script on the website...".
>
> I am not a Java expert but do use pre-written scripts on many sites. Could
> you kindly advise if you've ever heard of a worm being embedded in Java
> scripts on a Web site? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> If you'd like to view the site being referred to please contact me
off-list
> for the URL. (I understand we're not supposed to post URL's here.)
>

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