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Lion worm

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the presence of Lion

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

This host seems to be infected by the lion worm, because
it has shells running on extra port and a copy of SSH
running on port 33568.

Solution : re-install this system from scratch
See also : http://www.sans.org/y2k/lion.htm
Network Security Threat Level: Critical

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Deraison

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