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Reboot
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Sorry to let "real life" intrude, but I got snagged by this earlier on...

Any and all Win NT/2000/XP users should IMMEDIATELY go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp and download the patch within (especially, but not exclusively if you've been getting "Remote-Procedure-Call" errors that have been forcing restarts. Then, its a cure, otherwise its preventative).

Next, update your anti-virus software and run a full system scan. Look here for more info, or if you don't have an updatable anti-virus program installed.

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SoM, any idea how this virus is coming in? Is it a worm from an e-mail or a website? And will a virus scan catch it before doing an update?

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Portfolio Boy
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I posted a couple of basic info link on the LoveSan in this thread

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Reboot
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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
SoM, any idea how this virus is coming in? Is it a worm from an e-mail or a website? And will a virus scan catch it before doing an update?

Its a port-scan thing as I understand it. Which basically means that, rather than you having to do something to get/activate it, you have to do something to STOP it getting in. If you have a firewall that lets you close specific ports (or, as is recommended, close them all then open the ones you need), make sure port 4444 is closed, and 69 & 135 if you're not (intentionally) running programs that use those ports.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/8205.html

And I leave Norton to update itself normally, and I ran a virus scan when my computer started crashing, which picked up nothing. Later, after I found out about all this, I updated it and it caught it. At any rate, updating shouldn't make things worse if you can do it.

[ August 11, 2003, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Sanity or Madness? ]

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DrakeB3004
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Thanks to you guys for the technical info. My tech guy had me d/l that patch this afternoon and everything's been ok so far.

I also made the dept of homeland security site as a fav place -- i'm sure there's a lot of useful info there that nobody ever friggin hears about til it's too late...

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
Above is the windows patch that fixes the flaw which allows the Blaster worm.

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html
Above is the URL to a removal tool once you have been infected.

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11
Above is a sans summary of the Worm...

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