WARNING: W32.Blaster.Worm (1 Viewer)

[anti]

As you may or may not know there's a new worm out called W32.Blaster. It affects computers running Windows (damn you *nix geeks) and is transmitted through TCP, NOT email.

Update for windoze can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

Info about the worm can be found here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Don't risk your hsc work

-anti

 

[Soliah]

Note: Windows on the NT kernel.

So Win98/SE and WinME are unaffected.

 

[Newbie]

yay it can blow up my schools network and erase my bad marks

 

[tactic]

XP- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6c-c5b6-44ac-9532-3de40f69c074&displaylang=en

2000- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...46-f541-4c15-8c9f-220354449117&displaylang=en

 

[Huy]

And (if you're using Windows Server 2003 for some reason...)

http://microsoft.com/downloads/deta...3A-9F4C-4061-9009-3A212458E92E&displaylang=en

Other OS' affected and their respective patches can be downloaded from anti's post (first URL).

Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition
Windows 2000
Windows XP 32 bit Edition
Windows XP 64 bit Edition
Windows Server 2003 32 bit Edition
Windows Server 2003 64 bit Edition

Soliah quite rightly stated,
it does not effect 95, 98, 98SE, or ME (play on words there)
W32.Blaster.Worm has not been found on your computer.

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W32.Blaster.Worm Removal Tool
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe
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[Ragerunner]

yeah my computer got infected yesterday. not that destructive though.

 

[:: ck ::]

my skool got infected so none of the computers were available today

 

[Rahul]

yeh mine was affected, but i whipped up a quick proggie that cleaned the worm.

 

[fatmuscle]

yay for Linux

 

[:: ck ::]

lol i was laughing at my friend coz he was spamming me on msn and i didnt reply in time and hes like
"shit hurry up reply.. dmanit.. oh man 60 seconds left... oh fuck u man hurry up come back theres 20 secs left"

i come back "hey i just came back from toilet"

then his last words were "u just murdered my computer"

im like laughing at him after he rings me

then my laptop starts counting down while we talk
and im like shit... hahaha

damn its so widespread!

 

[Rahul]

yep lol...the fixbalster fixes it up good tho

 

[Huy]

Funnily enough, Auto-update would have downloaded critical patches for you (if you had left it on )

I downloaded this patch about 2 weeks ago, all of my systems were unaffected, yet I've been answering msg's and phone calls from friends all afternoon. (About 10-12 cases to my knowledge, within my circle of mates).

 

[:: ck ::]

it disables auto update once ur infected... also deosnt let u go to intenet connection options once ur connected... plus if u terminate the process for both svc and msblast it farken keeps comin back

i tried both the ms and symantec patches.. it still keeps going... dunno y T__T

 

[Huy]

unplug your network cable (or dialup: disconnect)
stay offline

assuming you've downloaded both fixblast and ms's "823890-x86-enu..." patch for the correct os,

run fixblast, it'll scan your computer for the worm
once it's detected, it'll clear/delete/remove it as required
then it'll ask you to download "832890" (KB article), which is about 1.2MB,

you'll probably have this file already, so you can just install it from there, and reboot when it says so.

another thing you should do, is to download new virus definitions (if you haven't already) and scan your computer.

running fixblast off the bat, scanning your comp, removing it, installing the patch and restarting works for most people.

 

[MiuMiu]

Originally posted by Newbie
yay it can blow up my schools network and erase my bad marks

it got our school network

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by YEAR12
it got our school network

I wasn't at school today (no trial exams, physics tomorrow), but I heard that were was an announcement made at school.

I would have loved to be there.
they were warning students not to use the library computers (all running XP) and telling kids not to use the internet at home and all of that, it sounds pretty funny tee-hee

Too bad I missed it...

 

[saladsurgery]

mwahaha

owning a mac does have it's advantages, see?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by saladsurgery
owning a mac does have it's advantages, see?

so too does running a *nix based system, or windows 95/98/me (god forbid)

but i see your point
(i wasnt affected, but that's not to say i'll never be affected by anything like this).

 

[Beaky]

i just finished my *nix system yesterday

AMD 500, 96MB Ram, 52x Burner... all it needs is a HD!!!

lol i need round 10 gig.. im guessing ebay... any suggestions?

 

[wogboy]

so too does running a *nix based system, or windows 95/98/me (god forbid)

Or Windows 2K/XP fully patched & up to date