What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm

Scify · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:21 pm

At 11:34 A.M. Pacific Time on August 11, Microsoft began investigating a worm reported by Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). A worm is a subclass of a virus that generally spreads without user action and distributes complete copies (possibly modified) of itself across networks. A worm can consume memory or network bandwidth, thus causing a computer to stop responding.

Update Several antivirus companies have responded and written tools to remove the Blaster worm.

Who Is Affected?
Users of the following products are affected:

MicrosoftÂ® Windows NTÂ® 4.0
Microsoft WindowsÂ® 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Serverâ„¢ 2003
Here to download from
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

<SRA>Maximus · **Joined:** Fri May 16, 2003 7:23 am **Posts:** 436

I was actually going to post that soon as I heard about it Scify but I think I would have come off as sounding sarcastic. I'm glad to see some of you haven't got hit. From what I understand there is a message attached to the worm as well. Something along the lines of "Hey billy Gates fix your software " or some such thing.

Mahatma · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:48 pm

buddy of mine already got hit.

Thank God I'm actually using a Mac.

<SRA>Maximus · **Joined:** Fri May 16, 2003 7:23 am **Posts:** 436

:lol: Ok I'm gonna go get my boots on now because it's getting deep in here. :lol: Friend of mine at work got hit as well. Gonna be a lot of upset people out there. Not upset enough to ditch Windows but upset nonetheless. :cry:

DARKMATTER · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:27 am

ahhhh now i'm glad to be using windoze 98 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll: :roll: :roll:

What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm

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