By Pia Heikkila, 19 January 2001 16:52
NEWS The self-spreading worm scans the internet for servers based on Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0 and then attempts to gain access by using the well known security flaws in the servers. The RPC.statd and wu-FTP flaws are commonly known throughout the Linux community. Once the worm is executed, it keeps on running until the server is switch off and replaces all index.html files with an HTML file containing the text "Hackers looooooooooooooove noodles". According to US wires, the worm was created by internet vandals or so called script kiddies. Anti-virus vendor Sophos has issued a warning but has not received any reports of the virus.
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