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Pandilex
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[ LATEST VIRUS INFORMATION ]
« on: 08/12/03 at 12:50:27 » |
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Yesterday, on August 11th, a virus took the world by force by exploiting a known problem with windows.
It affected hundreds of thousands of computers in a matter of hours, including my own.
The symptoms for the virus include:
- Your computer shuts down without reason
- Parts of your operating system fail as a key part of windows is given invalid instructions and crashes (svchost.exe on windows 2000)
It opens many ports on your computer and is transmitted to computers not running a firewall.
Details from symantec can be found here.
There is an update patch to fix this exploit in windows 2000 and XP, but I'm not clear on how it spreads on windows 9x systems (Microsoft claim windows ME is not affected, but I'm not convinced).
Click here for the microsoft bulletin describing the problem (No patch for windows 9x... don't know why seeing as the virus appears to affect these systems).
There is also a security tool on the symantec site for searching and eradicating this virus - be warned it can come back if your computer is not secured.
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Re: [ LATEST VIRUS INFORMATION ]
« Reply #1 on: 08/12/03 at 15:17:24 » |
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My XP computer crashed about 20 times yesterday. It seemed as if it waited til I was online, and had about 4 browsers open. When I finally got frustrated I went to my moms computer, which has ME because she's lazy and won't let me put XP on it from "fear of file loss."
Didn't affect me on ME at all really.
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« Reply #2 on: 08/12/03 at 15:39:16 » |
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Thanks for the heads up Pandi..turns out I have it..
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« Reply #3 on: 08/12/03 at 16:26:06 » |
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Yeah, I just managed to clear it from my pc today, reboots your system any time you go near an internet program, I had to download the patches on win 98, lucky to have it really, not sure how your supposed to download the scanner from symantec and patch from microsoft when your computers infected.
I know for sure though that 98 and below are safe.
But the links Pandilex gave ya are all you need, if your sure you aint got (it and believe me you would know if you had as cky mention with the reboots) then get the patch, otherwise get the scanner from symantec then patch it.
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« Reply #4 on: 08/12/03 at 16:45:49 » |
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got my dads computer I walked in there and told him about it and his computer was rebooting but it didin't cause any damage so he got lucky just ran the update so who ever is sending it out to ya :p
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« Reply #5 on: 08/12/03 at 17:18:38 » |
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I have Windows ME and it never affected me and my dad has XP and I haven't heard any complaints from him mind you he doesn't use the net, lucky annoyance.
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« Reply #6 on: 08/12/03 at 17:21:22 » |
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yea well you should get the patch any ways its your computer do with it what you will good luck ya'll
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« Reply #7 on: 08/12/03 at 17:24:22 » |
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I got this error on my computer with Windows XP.It really did suck.Just downloaded the patch.Gonna go install it now.
Thanks alot for the info pandi.You're a life saver  lol
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« Reply #8 on: 08/12/03 at 17:45:17 » |
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we did about 15 repairs on customer/business machines today at work and a few onsite repairs, nasty little worm, i like it. only seems to affect nt4/2k/xp.
will spread on to a machine via RPC port 135 if it's not firewalled off, the patch to fix RPC was released by Microsoft july 16th, and those people with it can't be affected by it unless they get it via an email and run it themselves, if that happens, then you need the latest update from norton to remove msblast.exe from your system.
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« Reply #9 on: 08/12/03 at 17:59:18 » |
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isn't it great to know that there are people in this world dedicated to the distrution of every thing they can get there hands on?
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« Reply #10 on: 08/12/03 at 18:09:43 » |
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Installed the patch and im running without getting that gay RPC message. Thanks again pan for the info.
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« Reply #11 on: 08/12/03 at 18:42:53 » |
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Bleh. Annoying little thing it is. Ran the thing to get it removed and now I'm getting the patch.
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« Reply #12 on: 08/12/03 at 19:24:04 » |
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Just a question... How do i find out if i have 32 or 64bit XP and what's the difference between them?
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« Reply #13 on: 08/12/03 at 19:27:07 » |
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unless you bout a motherbord with 64 bit then u have 32 so mostly likly you have 32 as that is still the standers so another words just download 32 version
what this is there are traces or also knowen as leads on your motherbord that are the eletrical path for the information to travil and there are 32 of them on a stander mother bord they are now working on 64 versioin and are actuly out but more comminly used for people who run 2 cpu's (proccessors)
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« Reply #14 on: 08/12/03 at 20:28:20 » |
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i have to go fix my g/f's computer in a little bit, so i was reading about this virus much of last night and even though it's a pain in the ass for everyone it's still sorta cool. i mean, this is apparently in the worm itself...
Quote:The worm contains the following text, which is never displayed:
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!! |
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see? he gives a shout out for his peeps and bashes, playa, bill gates. the author is totally a destructive annoyance, but maybe his heart's in the right place.
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« Reply #15 on: 08/12/03 at 20:49:02 » |
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Yes! i'm pretty sure my computer isnt good enouugh for this virus thing 
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« Reply #16 on: 08/12/03 at 21:35:37 » |
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I was called into work - and had to repair 18 machines today that were all infected. It is a very interesting worm.
Thanks for the post Simon
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« Reply #17 on: 08/12/03 at 22:58:30 » |
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Anyone who's got a working version of Norton Antivirus for XP? Feel free to AIM GUSish if you do..
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« Reply #18 on: 08/12/03 at 23:08:02 » |
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wow. * Rattlesnake also found 20 cases of W32.Spybot.worm on her computer.
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« Reply #19 on: 08/13/03 at 01:52:46 » |
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Funny part was people thought it was just going around NM.
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