MSBlast.exe (virus)

[Asher]

No, it was an open source OS...think on it.

Hint: It wasn't a GNU-licensed OS.

[Sarxis]

Honestly, the worm wasn't a big deal, but I am sorta glad for msblast: it made MS get off their butts and come up with a fix before some SERIOUSLY malicious software abused this security hole.

I think that was the point of it anyway.

[Asher]

Um. The fix for the hole MSBlast exploits was out almost a month before MSblast...

[Sarxis]

Was it really? oh well, must have missed it. Was a pretty stupid worm, and it didn't even work like it was supposed to on my system.

[Asher]

I told people to patch immediately as a worm was inevitable, last month: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=93099

[Sarxis]

Ahh! See, I was getting ready to move, and I didn't have internet in the new place till recently. Just wasn't paying attention.

[JohnT]

That Asher... always looking after our asses.

...uhhhh...

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Asher
No, it was an open source OS...think on it.

Hint: It wasn't a GNU-licensed OS.

Must have been a BSD then. On Linux I've heard them called SunRPC, that's why I thought they came from Solaris. I don't use RPCs at all, they are a security risk on either OS. By the way, my router gets bombed with 135 requests. Just drops them of course.

A friend of my wife caught the worm already. She was shocked and helpless when she called me. Made me think... 3 months ago I set her up that computer. It came shipped with XP Home, but I seriously considered to install a Debian+Gnome on it, since she is a bloody newbie. I should have done so, even more since she lives 700 km away, and these service calls every 2 weeks drive me nuts.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
Actually it's very poor code and design.

It's just such an easy exploit.

Thanks to MS, of course.

[Makeo]

Originally posted by Asher
I told people to patch immediately as a worm was inevitable, last month: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=93099

I probably should have done something about it last month rather than yesterday.

[SpencerH]

I cant be sure its MSBlast but a worm has brought down bagfulls of PC's at my work. They just try to boot up and get into some kinda loop.

[laurentius]

I blame MicroSoft, it's their fault, their ****ty software, that is causing all this pain in my ass

[Solver]

ILOVEYOU was excellent code .

They don't cause any harm, people. OK, this one restarts your data. But it's very easy to make it erase all data on harddrive after 3 days. I think, if ILOVEYOU did that, how bad would it have been?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by laurentius
I blame MicroSoft, it's their fault, their ****ty software, that is causing all this pain in my ass

So, if somebody pours sugar in your gas tank, that is the fault of the manufacturer?

[Harry Seldon]

It's just as easy to close the port. Why MS doesn't do this by default...

But this virus attacks through port 135 instead of 137, 138, or 139, which I don't think can be closed on a Microsoft machine.