W32.Blaster.Worm Virus

Koh

I am running Windows ME and cannot hold a net connection any which way. My virus scanner (VET) is giving me the all clear, but I am not convinced I haven,t got a bug. Any clues.

Thanks

PS I have connected to the net and sent this message via my laptop which is XP and firewall protected.PT

Sorry for the slow reply .. Went to the boat show in Perth ..

You won’t have the blaster worm with windows ME but may have something that could give similar symptoms however I would be looking in other directions first

If you can give me a few more symptoms ill try to nut it out for you.

Email me direct

koh@timegate.net.au

Best regards

Koh

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Maybe a variation, but its a new one that no AntiVirus picked up. So its not that new.

His network was infected by 1 user in Germany that use Dialup from Home, then took it to work (against co rules), and bang, nailed. Now he has 3-4 days work to clean it up...

Another link you forgot was http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/, Probably the smartest of the lot, I run mine weekly.

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Yes Truckster (or should that be Truck stir?) I deliberately left out MS because their sloppy coding caused the problem in the first place and most of their "fixes" need another fix to correct the other problems they create. But if you think MS is "...the smartest of the lot..." go for it!

Just in case you don't know: there are linux viruses but most people using linux well don't have a problem because of the firewall and AV configurations they use. The virus writers don't generally have a gripe against Linux because its open source. MS is different as its seen as "the evil empire". Also Linux doesn't get the publicity that MS gets.

Actually UB1 this is a totally new virus. Technically the virus is the blaster virus. the w32 is added so that the publlic know it is a windows virus ie 32 bit versions of windows.

All windows virus are identified with a w32. The TCP ports this virus uses also have legitimate uses so not all firewalls would have avoided this virus, so even sysadmins with three quaters of a brain might have been afected by this one.

So patching the faults is a dumb thing to do? You would put it in the "dumbest of the lot"? Not running Updates and patches is moronic!

Yup, there are virus for Linux, around 100th if that of as many for WInderz.

People carrying on about the Evil Empire and crap are just stupid.

Agree Linux doesnt get the publicity, for a Shait reason, MS dont want people to see the options.

Mandrake Linux or Redhat, Or Suse all are brilliant operating systems.

I have Mandrake 9 on a second PC here, Im learnin, and love it. Does everything Windows does, just different. It has Office, Web Editing, Games, etc..

Its not everyones cuppa T, but even as a firewall on an old P300 would be a good thing, I have it on an AMD900 384 meg Ram, just a spare machine really.

DELL for a while brought out PC's standard with Linux as an option, as have HP and I think Compaq. But they didnt sell, people were scared of change.

YMMV.

As usual T'stir is trying to put words in someone else's mouth. What's up, like your own voice too much? Read what I actually said not what you want me to say.

I objected to the MS is" the smartest of the lot" for protection when its not. Running decent protection and taking responsibility for your system is the smartest way. Stop trying to put people down all the time and try being nice it might help.

Of course updates are useful but be wary: SP1 for XP for example, did little for most people except make it more vulnerable. The XP firewall is just better than nothing but the original version left the system more vlunerable than not running it.

Just to put things in perspective; I haven't had a virus in 5 years and I've got students who regularly try to infect a test system.

And not one of you has commented on the post about the usefulness of the grc website et al. I pointed out that the sites I provided are useful for the things I suggested. It was never meant to be a complete listing but T'stir gets stuck in over the omission of the MS site that everyone knows about anyway. Why is that? Does he own MS shares or something? Or is he just being obnoxious?

So I get attacked because I have a slightly different opinion. What a pack mentality!!

oh for crying out loud... I see this crap on every other forum I'm on.. this is a FOUR WHEELED BLOODY DRIVE FORUM!!!

now see... you've p*ssed me off enough to perpetuate this thread...
to quote UB.1 "SP1 for XP for example, did little for most people except make it more vulnerable" and what piece of enlightened linux / open source zealotry are you basing that on?

good on truckster for at least informing joe public about the bloody worm, the more people find out about it, the more people patch, the less hosts for the worm to propagate from. it's not rocket science.

cheers,

KG

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