Thanks to N3WBI3 for pointing out this article.
Posted on 08/17/2005 8:25:56 AM PDT by ShadowAce
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A fast-moving computer worm Tuesday attacked computer systems using Microsoft operating systems, shutting down computers in the United States, Germany and Asia.
Among those hit were offices on Capitol Hill, which is in the midst of August recess, and media organizations, including CNN, ABC and The New York Times. Caterpillar Inc., in Peoria, Illinois, reportedly also had problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Watch your machines! Patch them as soon as the patches come out!What was causing the damage was unclear, although experts pointed to a new worm called worm-rbot.cbq.
David Perry of Trend Micro, an Internet monitoring firm, said the latest worm may have been derived from the Zotob worm, which was first reported over the weekend.
Thanks to N3WBI3 for pointing out this article.
Port 135, I suppose.
Caterpillar had a worm?
Seems somewhat ironic.
Trend Micro let so many viruses into my computer they were having a party in there!
From other articles, I have seen, this happens when a laptop is brought within the firewall. It supposedly affects early XP systems (IMHO probably not security updated) and Win 2K systems.
even more so that CNN the "Wolrd Wide Worm" also got a Worm.
How is it that the nobel worm deserves such a label.
It should be: "Today Microsoft announced a patch for a new CNN that fills the air with Bullvine Scatology"
To clean CNN from your system wipe real good and don't forget to wash.
The geniuses at Annoyances.org recommended this site/software to help close those ports.
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm
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Saved again by Win9x. If everyone would just migrate to 3.1, their systems would run much more quickly and they would be ignored by most viri and worms. The biggest mistake I made was migrating from Win95 to Win98.
I keep hearing this, but have yet to see any real-world exploitation of these flaws, like Windows seems to incubate.
I wonder why that is? and no--it ISN'T because of market share or popularity!
Using my linux desktop to harden my windows servers.... My *nix servers are in their own rack to which I could probably lose the key and not care..
Yes sir! Mine is already patched.
Good man. I run FC4, myself.
Reason #1000000000000 to get a Mac!
I'm off for the rest of the day from a 'major telecommunications company' due to our entire internal network being down. Hubby says people with company laptops infected hem at home and then introduced it inside the comapny's firewall.
There are fewer security holes in Windows and Windows applications when compared to Unix and Linux on the whole. Here's some sample reports from US-Cert, or you can search the archives for yourself.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-019.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-033.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-054.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-068.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-145.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB05-166.html
If I ever get my hands on these a-holes who write these, I'll kick them in the stones so hard they'll appear to have 3 Adams Apples!
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