Despite what Russ Cooper posted on NTBugtraq two years ago in the wake
of Blaster, that is NOT true (and wasn't true then). While Blaster,
Sasser, and the recent MS05-039 exploits rely on a buffer overflow for a
remote infection mechanism, they all use the vulnerability to download
an infectuous executable to the target system, and av absolutely can
prevent the infection if sigs are in place. These are different from
pure memory worms like Code Red and SQL Slammer.
Also, McAfee for a while has had defenses in place for pure memory
worms, and I believe several other vendors have it in place now.
Regards,
Gaby
-----Original Message-----
From: Joswiak, Johnny G. [mailto:jgjoswia@UTMB.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:16 PM
To: womalley@cmu.edu; Schlegel, Justin; focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: wintbp.exe
CA is calling it Win32.Peabot.A with a "Medium" alert, McAfee is calling
it "W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039", Symantec has the Zotob.e, etcetera.
Patch the systems, this is an MS05-039 exploit. The various antivirus
companies can only provide cleanup after the worm hits unless they have
buffer overflow protection like VSE8.0i provides (ok a plug but I like
it).
Hope this helps.
Johnny
-----Original Message-----
From: William O'Malley [mailto:wo@andrew.cmu.edu]
Sent: Tue 8/16/2005 8:51 PM
To: Schlegel, Justin; focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: wintbp.exe
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