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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: kelly on August 12, 2003, 08:58:22 AM

Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: kelly on August 12, 2003, 08:58:22 AM: More of the usual.

MSBlaster worm spreading rapidly

http://theregister.co.uk/content/56/32286.html
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Mrious_be on August 12, 2003, 11:07:19 AM: Doesn't look like an ordinary Worm anymore acording to the Yahoo! newspages.
Might stay for months, and they are affraid for new adaptions of this Worm, which can even be more sticky to eliminate.

And us Mac users... well... we can just keep on and do our business

Steve

I do feel bad for people who will encounter the virus on Windows though... ((sigh))

Me... feeling hot hot hot
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: CyberPet on August 12, 2003, 05:43:55 PM: Actually we mac users do get affected too, especially those who happen to have an ISP that runs on Windows instead of Unix. Had a few friends that complained about slow speed and problems with retrieving their email.

For those of you with friends that uses Windows, inform them how to stop this and quickly since the virus spreads from computer to computer, without any email program. It duplicates itself to 20 unique IP-addresses it finds in a network.

Step 1: Start the computer in Safe Mode and delete the file called MSBLAST.EXE.
Step 2: Download the MS Security Update ASAP from Microsoft's site.
Step 3. If the person is behind a firewall, block port 135 before going out on the net.
Step 4: Push the start button and Windows update.
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: pendragon on August 12, 2003, 06:55:05 PM: Just heard on the local news...

MSBlaster has shut down/crashed the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles.

Still, M$ remains the OS of choice for the US Govt., esp. the Department of Defense.

Harv
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Al on August 12, 2003, 11:35:56 PM: I just had a friend come to me saying he has this "msblaster".

The news circulating says that most will have to take there PC's to a technician to rid the virus.

Will that fix work for everyone, Petra?

I hear there are cleaners out there. Just have to know where to find them?

Dreambird, if you pass through this thread, can you please drop off the URL for your friends Windows Help forum? Might be useful to people, like me that's not home.

Glad we use Macs.
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: kelly on August 13, 2003, 08:21:36 AM: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100547.ht...valInstructions

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100547.htm

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...&virus_k=100547

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...rus/default.asp

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data...aster.worm.html
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: kelly on August 13, 2003, 08:43:34 AM: How Blaster Worm Affects Mac Networks

http://www.macmegasite.com/modules.php?nam...article&sid=999
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Diana on August 13, 2003, 08:44:54 AM: Hi Al,

I'm not Dreambird, but I have the Windows BBS bookmarked.

Windows BBS

Symantec is always a good resource too though. Here is a link to the page detailing the info about MSBlaster and directions/links to tools for eradicating it. It won't take a PC Tech if the PC owner can read and follow directions..

Info about MSBlaster

see ya,
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Dreambird on August 13, 2003, 11:18:36 AM: Diana...

From the link to Symantec you left it looks like the thing is quite selective on what OS's it affects too... mainly only Win 2000 and XP... so I'm safe I guess with my Win98se as well... I've gutted it of all the Microsoft IE and OE related stuff too though... including the updater.

One benefit of that has been that my machine crashes a whole lot less than it did with the typical install for any reason...

The Windows BBS is in the board's "link" section too... down at the bottom of the page...

http://www.techsurvivors.net/links.html
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Al on August 13, 2003, 01:20:05 PM: Thanks Diana and DB.

I was just printing out the stuff on the Symantec site. Will be burning my friend a CD to run the fix.

Hopefully he can follow directions, he's not the brightest person when it comes to computers.
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Al on August 14, 2003, 03:45:55 AM: Well, my friend surprised me. He emailed me to tell me that he ran the cleaner from Symantec and then reinstalled the patch. And all is well, so far.
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: kelly on August 14, 2003, 08:29:06 AM: Interesting development.

Latest MS Worm: MUCH Worse Than You've Been Told

http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/08...813002651.shtml
Title: MSBlaster Worm
Post by: Russ Kidd on August 17, 2003, 11:27:47 PM: Thanks, folks, for the great information. I'm going to see my elderly parents in a few days and I need to check their PC for this.

I told them about it on the phone, but (bless them ) they're just not able to understand what it's all about. They don't use their computer much so I'm hoping they'll be lucky until I get there.

It's the defenseless PC users like them that I really feel for. Makes you wonder how this hacker scum can be so heartless. Come to think of it, scum doesn't have a heart so it makes sense.