“Just when you thought it was getting better (no major sites
attacked in a few days..) guess what? It’s gonna get worse.
Trinoo, one of the simpler programs in the current bumper crop
is now available for Windows. Instead of just being able to
infect various UNIX platforms, it can now make the leap into the
bigtime…”
“… if we’ve learned anything over the last year or two, it
is that infecting a Windows desktop with malicious code is
trivially easy in most cases.”
“The following advisory was issued today by SANS:”
“James Madison University has found 160 Windows98 computers
infected with the trinoo distributed denial of service Trojan. The
news here is that the infection has spread to personal computers.
The vast number of PCs connected to the Internet, now able to be
used in DDoS attacks, raises the threat level substantially.”