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Article: Sourcefire provides protection against Zotob worm - claim.(Brief Article)
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- Telecomworldwire
- Article date:
- August 17, 2005
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TELECOMWORLDWIRE-17 August 2005-Sourcefire provides protection against Zotob worm - claim(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
Sourcefire, Inc, a provider of intrusion prevention, has announced that its customers were already protected when the Zotob worm was discovered.
Zotob worm reportedly uses the Microsoft Plug-and-Play (PnP) vulnerability (MS05-039) to propagate and uses exploit code that targets the PnP issue via port 445. Afterwards, the worm then uses ftp to transfer data from the infectd ...