blaster worm virus

Izzy · Post by **Izzy** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:13 pm

my firewall has been blocking about 2 attempts a minute on port 135 all day yesterday and today, it is soooooooooooooo irritating.

stephen T · Post by **stephen T** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:21 pm

if u dont believe me then u can come over i will get infected and u can try it. i know what happend. i have done a full scan and i havnt found anything else.

Post by **Lyndon** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:48 pm

more info from me m8's site plus his m8 as but together a little programme to help - for further info click the link

http://msblast.cjb.net/

not used the programme myself so your on your own

charlieannear · Post by **charlieannear** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:00 am

Did all the downloading and patching last night.
Anyway, It took a long time due to me having a dial-up and every once in a while my firewall asking me if I should permit a cookie (nad me not being there to say OK), the connection dropping off, and my virus scanner doing a full scan at the same time. I had left it running and gone outside, so hadn't realised it was running. Would have taken a lot less time if I had sat there with it and said OK at the relevant times. :rolleyes:
Anyway, during the course of the evening my firewall stopped nearly 1000 attempts to get onto my system.
Admittedly many of them were ads, but around 400 of them were trying to get at a port...

Bloody computer geek who wrote this thing is probably soooooooo pleased with his/her self. The

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:17 pm

Clever though how they can do it..

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:01 pm

Its the most complex virus i've ever seen, i've never known any to work the way this one does and to have such a big effect on the general public

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:03 pm

I know we had it at work... Are system was shut for ages.

rob · Post by **rob** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:09 pm

how do i check the log? Remember I'm thick...

wipe, turn around, look down then flush

Sorry folks, this virus is getting the better of me. I have been patching our servers at work for 2 weeks solid. Left work this morning at 5am got less than 4 hours sleep and had to come in again - yes and you can guess where I am now

Post by **Lyndon** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:10 pm

bit slow ain't ya

nuttyslack · Post by **nuttyslack** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 10:24 am

Rob,

couldnt you write a script to patch all the servers at once?