Sorbot worm targets MYSQL.Virus experts are warning computer users about a new variant of the Forbot worm which targets MYSQL open-source database software on Windows computers connected to the Internet. MYSQL is a popular alternative to Microsoft's SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. database software and there are said to be more than 5 million installations worldwide. Aside from spreading across the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises worm also attempts to create a zombie bot May refer to either the program that combs the Internet looking to turn vulnerable machines into zombies or to zombie machines once they have been compromised. See zombie and bot. network which would allow remote hackers to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack from infected computers. The Forbot-DY worm tries to spread to network shares with weak passwords and also by using two Microsoft security vulnerabilities: The RPC-DCOM security exploit (N4SO3-039) and the LSASS LSASS Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (Microsoft) LSASS Lightweight Seismic/Acoustic Surveillance System security exploit (MS04-01 1). www.sophos.com |
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