Phatbot Trojan (Slashdot Article)

From: Allen Chang <allen_at_rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 16:54:52 PST

For people who didn't click on the description of the trojan on Slashdot.

We've been seeing the "Goodbye, have a nice infection :)" banner on
compromised computers for the past few weeks. Didn't know if was a trojan
network. We're looking at a large number of trojaned computers, probably
through DCOM or ASN.1

http://www.lurhq.com/phatbot.html

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           Allen Chang
 Lead Network Security Coordinator
  Office of Residential Computing
           UC Berkeley
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