[Gllug] Analysing worm traffic

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Sep 29 14:09:19 UTC 2003


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:25:53PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I've been tracking the snort logs on my firewall for the last month or so
> and have seen the number of welchia/blaster attack attempts rise from
> 660/day to 9,125 during Saturday. Nearly all these are coming from within 
> Telewest's own network.
> 
> I don't expect that complaining to their helldesk is likely to do anything
> other than raise my blood pressure as they must already know how
> widespread this infection is yet they seem to be doing nothing about it.
> 
> So my question is - does anyone know how much traffic is generated by each
> attempt ? I'm guessing that it's not much but since the activity light on
> my cable modem is pretty much permanently on these days, it would be nice
> to know at what point I could claim a denial of service and start talking 
> about compensation !

The trouble is that they will always blame someone else.

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