Any word on what Slapper.C leaves in /tmp?  I have a friend that might 
have been "slapped" by it.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Martin Shears wrote:

> Slapper - Port 2002
> Slapper.B aka Cinik - Port 1978
> Slapper.C aka Unlock - Port 4156
> 
> ~Martin~
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:26, you wrote:
>  For those that may not have heard, there is already a new version of slapper
>  out in the wild.  I run multiple servers and had forgotten I ran SSL on one
>  of them, so I got infected with it. :-(  Anyway the new variant is called:
>  cinik.  It stores itself in the same directory (/tmp) but now all the
>  filenames are .cinik.c  .cinik, etc.
> 
>  This thing runs on UDP port 1978.  This is also a broken one in that it will
>  simply take down your internet connection totally even before an attack is
>  launched.  I would HIGHLY suggest people block off UDP port 1978 if they
>  don't NEED it for something else.  This variant still uses the same backdoor
>  the original slapper worm did, so an upgrade of SSL should fix the problem.
>  Some work has definately been done on this to make it a little harder to
>  find.  (It even says so in the opening comments.) hehehe.
> 
>  Just a heads up for everyone.
> 
>   - Matt
> 
> 
> 
> 



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