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Re: Warning -- floods of Allaple worm alerts.... sid:200329(2-5): msg#00126

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Subject: Re: Warning -- floods of Allaple worm alerts.... sid:200329(2-5)

If someone wants to send me IPs or other info off-list, I can look to
see if we have anything on it.

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On 1/18/07, Matt Jonkman
<jonkman-WwB1pFISwSkm7effSn6vN9HuzzzSOjJt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You still seeing those numbers of hits Russel?

Have you tried pinging some of the sources at random to see if they're
legit or spoofed?

Matt

Russell Fulton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Over the last 24 hours we have had about 50 sources fire 20 million ping
> packets containing the string that triggers the Allaple signature. The
> only affect it has has is to gum up my snort database. I don't believe
> this is worm traffic and if is a ddos it is pretty feeble. It was
> however a fairly effective dos against my snort system -- two sensors
> saw this traffic so that's a total of over 40 million events in the
> database. :(
>
> I have now disabled all those rules and am (slowly) deleting all the
> records from the data base. Can I suggest that these rules be disabled
> by default with a comment saying why.
>
> Anyone got any idea why this traffic was sent (I doubt if they were
> really trying to attack my snort system). They have sent enough
> traffic to random addresses to map our network 200 times over.
>
> Russell.
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