Full Disclosure: Re: Mystery DNS Changes

[Brian Eckman <eckman () umn edu>]

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.
>
>


McAfee labels it QHosts-1

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719

Brian


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