Re: Virus designed to take down an Oracle server?

From: RainbowHat <nHiATlE_at_blSackholeP.mAit.edMu.invalid>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:55:52 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <0S6XNL9QJ0LW1119THHF687MnHiATlE@blackhole.mit.edu>

< Ramon F Herrera

>Apparently this virus takes its name from a "Mech Assault"
>video game.

This is the EnergyMech. Stand-alone `emech` is not a virus/worm/game/ Oracle but an IRC bot. In most case, it's installed by intruder manually or by autorooter. If it behave like virus, `emech` is infected some ELF virus. Isn't the port 1521 some backdoor?

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Regards, RainbowHat. To spoof or not to spoof, that is the IPv4 packet.
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Received on Tue Jul 15 2003 - 14:55:52 CDT