Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mystery DNS Changes

[Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:04, Gary Flynn wrote:
> Hansen, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > We have seen multiple instances where DHCP enabled workstations have had
> > their DNS reconfigured to point to two of the three addresses listed below.
> > Can anyone else confirm this? Incidents.org is reporting an increase in port
> > 53 traffic over the last two days. Are we looking at the precursor to the
> > next worm?
> 
> This is currently being discussed on NTBUGTRAQ too.

This is the QHosts-1 trojan
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm


This information was posted to the Avien list about an hour ago by
Craig Schmugar, McAfee AVERT.

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