OT - Virus troubles (Mydoom)

[Andy Hall]

Wollongong.... FTP Software..... I wonder what ever happened to them....

.andy

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Yepo. All those. Also TGV and Fusion.

The lads from FTP software...mm. They are doing someting still. Can't remember waht. Try

[Andy Hall]

TGV I remember, but not Fusion. IIRC, Cisco bought TGV and it disappeared.

I believe that the Israeli company, Netmanage, bought them.

.andy

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[Witchy]

Ta - that's what I was going to say :)

-- cheers,

witchy/binarydinosaurs

[Witchy]

It was Ultrix, which as you say is a 4.x BSD variant.

-- cheers,

witchy/binarydinosaurs

[Bob Eager]

Well, the VAX ran vanilla 4.xBSD too. I used a VAX-11/780 running BSD

4.0/4.1/4.2 etc, direct from Berkeley. A lot cheaper than buying Ultrix from DEC (that came later, anyway).

[stefek.zaba]

This is not necessarily true: worms can be written with multiple payloads and platform detection code. In fact, the Morris Jr worm wot we're reminiscing about did exactly that: it worked against sendmail implementations regardless of instruction architecture (as its exploit was at the Sendmail application level - switching on Debug mode to elevate privilege, and then assuming it could talk Bourne shell), but also had specific binary exploits against VAX-running-BSD and Sparc-running-BSD-I-Think - from memory (and since this stuff happened before The Web it's not the work of moments to find the info) it was a fingerd buffer overflow. ISTR that it tried to run the VAX-specific arm under VMS, and got nowhere, as young Robert didn't have one of those to test against when doing his pure intellectual curiosity exercise ;-)

Stefek