[LUAU] Millenium Worm

[David & Max]

>I spent a couple hours looking at the code for the worm.
>It ftp's it's own source (and qpopper) and compiles it 
>on the host.  So even if I didn't have qpopper then, 
>now I do.

Wow......what a smart worm.

>
>Seems to me I could have prevented this attack from
>proceeding by:  Not having gcc and ftp (client) 
>installed; and (probably) by not using RedHat.
>
>
>The code to this worm is fascinating.  For someone
>learning network programming using C, it would
>be very enlightening.

Sorry to hear about what happened to your machine.  But can I take a look
at the code?  Seems to me that there would be something worth to learn in
the code.

-Max

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