The W
June 7, 2009 - birthdaybritney.jpg
Views: 179010425
Main | FAQ | Search: Y! / G | Calendar | Color chart | Log in for more!
28.3.24 1009
The W - Random - MSBlast Virus
This thread has 37 referrals leading to it
Register and log in to post!
Pages: 1 2 Next(2465 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
User
Post (29 total)
Alessandro
Lap cheong








Since: 2.1.02
From: Worcester MA

Since last post: 467 days
Last activity: 72 days
#1 Posted on | Instant Rating: 3.04
(deleted by Alessandro on 18.8.03 0835)
Promote this thread!
Gugs
Bierwurst








Since: 9.7.02
From: Sleep (That's where I'm a viking)

Since last post: 3962 days
Last activity: 3090 days
#2 Posted on
Oh, goodie. This means that it's not just me that got infected with it. At least with me, the only thing that's happening is Norton yelling at me that it's here and won't go away, but nothing's happened in a while.



Sometimes I ask myself why I watch WWE after all the crap it's given me. HLA, necro, HHH, and so on. And then it hits me. That one simple phrase that can be modified and used for anything that gets you down, yet makes you keep coming back.

Every episode has the potential to be the best one ever, and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss it after sitting through this shit.
Alessandro
Lap cheong








Since: 2.1.02
From: Worcester MA

Since last post: 467 days
Last activity: 72 days
#3 Posted on | Instant Rating: 3.04
(deleted by Alessandro on 18.8.03 0835)
FMW
Salami








Since: 3.1.02
From: Niagara Falls ONT. Canada

Since last post: 6710 days
Last activity: 6346 days
#4 Posted on
Is this thing only affecting Windows XP? Cause I use Windows 98 and nothing's happened yet.
It's False
Scrapple








Since: 20.6.02
From: I am the Tag Team Champions!

Since last post: 2199 days
Last activity: 581 days
#5 Posted on
Free advice: Download Zonealarm ASAP!




LS: Can you make me exciting?
GD: I don't know. Can you get me back on TV?
Alessandro
Lap cheong








Since: 2.1.02
From: Worcester MA

Since last post: 467 days
Last activity: 72 days
#6 Posted on | Instant Rating: 3.04
(deleted by Alessandro on 18.8.03 0835)
EddieBurkett
Boudin blanc








Since: 3.1.02
From: GA in person, NJ in heart

Since last post: 63 days
Last activity: 1 day
#7 Posted on
Here (microsoft.com)'s the official MS site on the worm.

It doesn't say anything about affecting Win98, but that might be one of the OS's Microsoft no longer supports. What's bad though is that it does say the NT 4.0 is affected, but Microsoft can't fix it because the fix would require a major rewrite of the OS.



I'm Mr. Mister. Watch your back, felons! When I get pissed, you get mist!
Freeway
Scrapple








Since: 3.1.02
From: Calgary

Since last post: 3749 days
Last activity: 3436 days
#8 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.96
Thank god I'm too lazy to upgrade from 95.



Your winner and 3-time Stanley Cup Champion...the New Jersey Devils! Their title defense begins in 4 months!
uberlou
Merguez








Since: 26.3.03
From: Glendale, Cali

Since last post: 5061 days
Last activity: 4832 days
#9 Posted on
So as long as one has a firewall and/or has updated their Windows security patches, then all is safe?





tarnish
Landjager








Since: 13.2.02
From: Back in the Heart of Hali

Since last post: 578 days
Last activity: 1 day
#10 Posted on | Instant Rating: 7.03

In fact, it affects all versions of Windows since 95. This information was released along with a lot of "Danger! Wil Robinson! Danger" over a month ago.

Anyone who did not take the time to patch up their system can thank themselves, as always.




/tarnish...

It is what it is.
You are what you it.
There are no mistakes.
--Tom Robbins
Omar Padilla
Goetta








Since: 3.1.02

Since last post: 1161 days
Last activity: 1157 days
#11 Posted on
Yeah, just download the patch. Even if the worm hasn't infected your computer, when it does, it's capable of blocking your version of Windows from downloading the patch.

Unfortunately, it seems to be getting worse and packing a bigger hit on many computers. 2 days ago, it was only inserting itself into computers as MSBlast.exe, as of today, it could be in a computer under 5 different file names.

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/msblast.shtml

It wouldn't hurt to run your task manager and make sure it's out of your computer and again...download the patch.



It's hockey, isn't it?
Bizzle Izzle
Bockwurst








Since: 26.6.02
From: New Jersey, USA

Since last post: 2928 days
Last activity: 2928 days
#12 Posted on

    Originally posted by tarnish

    In fact, it affects all versions of Windows since 95. This information was released along with a lot of "Danger! Wil Robinson! Danger" over a month ago.

    Anyone who did not take the time to patch up their system can thank themselves, as always.



I would expand that to say that anyone who willingly installed MS Windows can thank themselves.



'But if one is struck by me only a little, that is far different, the stroke is a sharp thing and suddenly lays him lifeless, and that man's wife goes with cheeks torn in lamentation, and his children are fatherless, while he, staining the soil with his red blood, rots away, and there are more birds than women swarming about him.' Diomedes, The Iliad of Homer

Maiden RULES!!!
Keeper
Blutwurst
Moderator








Since: 1.3.02
From: Worcester, MA

Since last post: 3271 days
Last activity: 2043 days
#13 Posted on
I spent my *entire day* at work curing this viurs for workers and friends. It isn't that hard to fight, but when people download or get the patch via email, and *don't know where they put it*, well it get's a bit annoying.

Why do the hackers do this anyway (probably to fuck with me).



Murphy's Law "The odds of the bread landing buttered side down are directly proportional to the price of the carpet."
Zeruel
Thirty Millionth Hit
Moderator








Since: 2.1.02
From: The Silver Spring in the Land of Mary.

Since last post: 1676 days
Last activity: 1675 days
#14 Posted on | Instant Rating: 4.05

    Originally posted by It's False
    Free advice: Download Zonealarm ASAP!


word...so far (since 2000) it has blocked 112,044 intrusions, 3084 were "high-rated" whatever that means...

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp




Almost finished my 2002-2003 College Football raitings. Watch this space!!!

PeterStork
Sujuk








Since: 25.1.02
From: Chicagoland with Hoosiers, or "The Region"

Since last post: 3290 days
Last activity: 3053 days
#15 Posted on
At the Best Buy I work at, the computer techs usually see about $600-$800 of revenue daily, most of that Norton installs, Windows updates and various repair/drive installs. $1000 in revenue is something to celebrate.

Today they made $2300. Almost all of that was virus removal.

A wait for setup/Norton install is usually fifteen minutes. Today it was over an hour.

I was on the Internet earlier today and wasn't hit. A few minutes ago I ran the patch just in case.



exit 670 dot com

Fuck the Emmys.

Alessandro
Lap cheong








Since: 2.1.02
From: Worcester MA

Since last post: 467 days
Last activity: 72 days
#16 Posted on | Instant Rating: 3.04
Whatever happened to the GOOD old days of computer viruses, when you just had to avoid opening email attachments with names like WINBAT32SUPERSEXYHI.exe ... Now, you're potentially screwed just by logging onto the internet!

And another thing; didn't Microsoft offer an automatic update system, where patches (and the like) would automatically download while you were surfing the net? When I first got Windows ME, I remember something being offered, but now I don't remember if it was an "automatic download" or just "automatic reminders" that would pop up when a new patch was available ...





Alessandro "Hercules" Boondy



emma
Cherries > Peaches








Since: 1.8.02
From: Phoenix-ish

Since last post: 445 days
Last activity: 167 days
#17 Posted on

    Originally posted by EddieBurkett
    Here (microsoft.com)'s the official MS site on the worm.

    It doesn't say anything about affecting Win98, but that might be one of the OS's Microsoft no longer supports. What's bad though is that it does say the NT 4.0 is affected, but Microsoft can't fix it because the fix would require a major rewrite of the OS.

I could be confused (Microsoft doesn't make this any too simple), but I don't think that's "The Patch" -- that one is MS03-010 which is a related precursor. But The Patch for the immediate problem is MS03-026 described at http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

I'm on Win2000 & got the svchost.exe crash symptoms, rather than the reboot that XP seems to do. Before I got it patched up (knock on wood), I had gotten one of the more advanced versions that the Norton cleanup didn't catch (including some of the stray "TFTP*" files that I've only seen reported in one of the descriptions).

Are we having fun yet? :-)
Battlezone
Potato korv








Since: 27.2.03
From: Seattle, Washington

Since last post: 5589 days
Last activity: 321 days
#18 Posted on

    Originally posted by emma
    Are we having fun yet? :-)


Well, *I* am certainly enjoying all of this, but then again, I'm using a Mac. :)



"So you're Ben Affleck. You're sitting next to Jennifer Lopez, who's your fiancee, you're eating a eight-foot high sundae, and members of the Boston Red Sox are coming up to you and asking for autographs. If that's not heaven, what is?" - Tony Kornheiser, PTI
Merc
Potato korv








Since: 3.1.02
From: Brisbane, Australia

Since last post: 4733 days
Last activity: 4711 days
#19 Posted on

    Originally posted by Alessandro
    And another thing; didn't Microsoft offer an automatic update system, where patches (and the like) would automatically download while you were surfing the net?



You CAN use automatic updates with Windows, but it all depends on the user allowing that option. The automatic update will download any critical updates, but its up to the user to install them if I read my help right.



I'm a fat wannabe surfer
Alessandro
Lap cheong








Since: 2.1.02
From: Worcester MA

Since last post: 467 days
Last activity: 72 days
#20 Posted on | Instant Rating: 3.04
(deleted by Alessandro on 18.8.03 0835)
Pages: 1 2 Next
Pages: 1 2 NextThread ahead: More butter sculpting
Next thread: Freddy V Jason kicked ass!
Previous thread: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
(2465 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
Um, A Fan? Burkett? Excalibur? No? OK, I'll start. Not a bad episode, per se, but the third to last episode should not be spinning its wheels. Other than the end, which was nothing more than a tease for next week, the threat did not feel real.
- SchippeWreck, Buffy 5/6 Thoughts (2003)
The W - Random - MSBlast VirusRegister and log in to post!

The W™ message board

ZimBoard
©2001-2024 Brothers Zim

This old hunk of junk rendered your page in 0.209 seconds.