OT - Ding Dong, the Wicked Worm is dead...

TerranC · #1 August 14th, 2003, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kamog:
Are you immune to this worm if you're using Windows 98?

Not immune, rather uneffected.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 August 14th, 2003, 08:35 AM

how about M.E.?

dogscoff · #3 August 14th, 2003, 12:13 PM

I had the worm too. It was preventing me from accessing the MS update site, so I copied all important files to my 2nd partition, then re-ghosted windoze from my laptop's install CDs.

Set mt ISP back up and guess what..? As soon as I went Online it started all over again. Either it had infected something on my D: drive or the worm was being puched onto my PC from the internet as soon as I looged on.

Anyway, used the shutdown -a command to keep my pc awake long enough to download zonealarm, then cut the sucker off. Then I ran the symantec gizmo and am now in the painful process of re-installing all the XP security patches over 56k

The moral of the story? Never play poker with a man whose first name is a city.

General Woundwort · #4 August 14th, 2003, 12:25 PM

Dogscoff -

This worm buries itself into your system restore files, so that if you remove it without being in "safe" mode, it just reloads itself. I ran the remover program, removed the worm, then restarted in safe mode and ran the remove program again - and got the "buried" copy of the worm. FYI.

[ August 14, 2003, 11:30: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

minipol · #5 August 15th, 2003, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
how about M.E.?

Symantec has the answer

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT

Gryphin · #6 August 15th, 2003, 01:08 AM

The good? news?

I don't know if I just got lucky or if the BLasted BLaster could not find our xp system since our ME system sits between it and the web. It is now patched.

Link below is to an artical that puts one sorta bright note on this worm.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...081303X,00.asp
Caution: There are popups at the above link.

Quote:

In the end, however, BLaster could do Users a favor. A serious--but not devastating--worm of its type might help inoculate the Internet community against future variants that are more virulent, the experts say.

[ August 14, 2003, 12:11: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

mottlee · #7 August 15th, 2003, 01:42 AM

MY XP System was CLEAN!!!!!!

(I guess I got lucky!)