Microsoft Do It Again

RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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<div class="IPBDescription">RANT</div> Well, at aproximitly 6:32PM Sunday 10th August all the PCs in my home network started to warn me that they are going to shut down in 1minute due to some service being unavailable. (msblast.exe) Because Id never seen this before I asumed it was a virus and took the usual steps to no succes. It then occured to me to shut the internet off incase it was some sort of hack and it solved the problem. I then done the same again, and again to no succes.

I decided to call a friend on the same ISP and OS Windows XP. He was also having the exact same problems. Withen the next 2 days we herd continued reports of the same error throught Glasgow (my home city in Scotland). We agreed it must be XP but my dads work computers didnt seem to be affect on their own connection and seperate network.

Today my friend came accross a patch that seems to have fixed the problem.

Anyone got any ideas to what the hell microsoft done to cause this?
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  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    edited August 2003
    people will always try to bash those who make more $$ than them

    <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030812/tc_nm/tech_windows_worm_dc' target='_blank'>clicky</a>

    also you can look into the webbed Ad-aware 6 thread at the top of the off-topic forums
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    Nothing. It is an internet worm that was created to attack Microsoft server (all just all official microsoft computers) on the 16th of every month until christmas. Essentialy what it does is it restarts the computer 40 seconds after being turned on. As i said, it was created to attack microsoft, but apparantly it's gone rouge and is currently attacking any version of XP, mainly BT Broadband users, but 56k and other ISPs have been targetted too.
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    Microsoft patched this vulnerability a LONG time ago. If you don't keep up to date on your software that's really not their fault, now is it?
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  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    not a LONG time ago (2 weeks) but a while anyway
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I do keep up to date thats the thing. It patches every Monday at 9AM. But i was out when it asked to install <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    Well, why complain then? It's not Microsoft's fault you were out, and it's not like it's difficult to go find patches (windowsupdate.com).
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Its fixed now but that whole should have never been there shoudl it?
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    You try writing an operating system without security holes. It's not like there's a button the Microsoft programmers can push that says "Fix All Security Problems Now".
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    While you're all running around about RPC overflows, I'm laughing. Laughing at you while using my skillz at not downloading virus-infected files. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> If any of you are going to use an anti-virus, I support AVG Antivirus. It's much better than those "mainstream" virus scanners. Except they only update their Virus Definitions every 15 days.
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  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    Norton AV Corporate v.8 had the info on this bug before the MS patch. And its not about d-loading infected files.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--GreyPaws+Aug 12 2003, 05:50 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GreyPaws @ Aug 12 2003, 05:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> not a LONG time ago (2 weeks) but a while anyway <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Almost 4 weeks actually... July 16th was when the original patch was posted.

    <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/...in/MS03-026.asp</a>

    And if you had a firewall of some sort (software or hardware) none of this would have happened to you. In this day and age, where a linksys or dlink or MS firewall costs $50, there's no excuse not have one. Relying on anti-virus software to catch a port vulnerability attack is not as good as closing the port in the first place.
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  • redeemed_darknessredeemed_darkness Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12565Members
    edited August 2003
    yes the patch was 4 weeks old

    and the worm only attacks 2000, 2003, NT and XP

    <a href='http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html' target='_blank'>for more info click here</a>

    and you are about the 5 person to post about it here have a good day
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  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    Someone on FARK brought up a good point yesterday -

    Everyone says "OMG just use linux or mac they don't have these pr0bl3ms nubs!"

    Every OS has its security flaws, it's inevitable. But because Windows has such a larger market share than the other OSes, exploits are found more commonly.

    If Mac OS held 90% of the market, I'll be you would be seeing malicious code written for Mac, and everyone would be saying "OMG just use windows or linux they don't have these pr0bl3ms nubs!"



    I think the man has a damn good point.
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  • roachemsroachems Join Date: 2003-04-02 Member: 15148Members
    Linux pisses me off. You can't just learn linux in a couple of hours, it takes a long time.
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    To stop the shutdown

    1.) Start -> Run
    2.) Type in "shutdown /a"

    At least now you'll be able to download the patch in peace....
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