New Virus hitting hard and furious!!!

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html ^ | 08/11/03 | self

[meyer]

Thanks for the info, Ernest! Someone/something sent me the "w32/bugbear/ virus yesterday, but Norton found it. First time in a long while that I got any kind of virus sent to me.

[goosie]

I had this on my laptop at work yesterday and today. The helpdesk fixed it pretty quickly with the MS patch.

[amigatec]

There is an easier way. Download a copy of your favorite Linux distro, burn to cd, put cd in drive, push the reset button on front of computer, follow instructions on screen.

In about 10 minutes you will have a virus free system.

GRIN!!!

[Knitebane]

Be aware that Win95, Win95 OSR2 and Win98 are also no longer supported by Microsoft.

Win98 Second Edition is supported until September 30th, 2003.

WinME is supported until December 31st, 2003.

If you are running the original Windows 98 and a bug comes out that does affect it, there will be no patch for you. After the end of next month, any version of 98 will be unsupported, and after the end of the year, you must move up to Win2k or XP .

[jbstrick]

Yes MrsEmma, Please enlighten us.

[Timesink]

Also, I only surf on AOL...will I be safe?

No. Do what's being suggested in this thread.

[Daus]

This is the REAL DEAL. Within the last two hours I've gotten 3 'HELP' calls from friends and family all wondering why their machines keep re-booting themselves, reporting an RPC error.

Nasty.

[Timesink]

Copy and paste it on the notes section of the comments box in the Get Info/General Information pulldown menu

Earlier versions of the MacOS did this automatically whenever you downloaded a graphic or piece of text off a web site; I don't know why this functionality was removed from OS X, but I do know it's the single most annoying "feature" of the current OS, IMHO.

Someone must have thrown together some hack to reinstate the functionality, but I've never happened to come across such a thing. If anyone knows where one can be found, I'd sure appreciate a pointer.

[Timesink]

Oh yeah! I just turned in my order for a dual 2GHz G5 with 4GB of PC3200 DDR400 SDRAM, and a very quick and fast external SCSI eight drive array on an ATTO UL3D, all cabled for dual channel 160MB/sec. Hoo. Hoo. Hoo. Hoo.

*drool*

[Danette]

livius and longjack,



Thank you. It worked!!!!

I sure appreciate your help!! :)

[Timesink]

Probably not. This DCOM exploit is not known to affect Win9x (including WinME.) It is known to affect any version of Windows using the NT Kernel. This includes WinNT 3.51, 4.0 Workstation and Server, Win2K (all versions), WinXP and Win2003.

Needless to say, the "mainstream" news media has been universally reporting that the exploit affects "essentially all versions of Windows."

Aren't something like 30% of PC owners still running Win98? This sort of piss-poor journalism can cause these people a lot of grief as they run around looking for patches to their systems that are not needed and, indeed, do not exist.

[gcraig]

This is posted from Redhat Linux 8.0 -- no worries here.

[savedbygrace]

Did I mention the 22" Apple Cinema Display? I've had that with a G4 for a while now, but it's definitely front and center with the new G5. With a 15" Viewsonic flat panel LCD to the right of it.

The G5 should run Final Cut Pro 4 pretty smartly, I'm thinking.

[Timesink]

Did I mention the 22" Apple Cinema Display? I've had that with a G4 for a while now, but it's definitely front and center with the new G5. With a 15" Viewsonic flat panel LCD to the right of it.

If I weren't sitting in front of a 17" flat-panel iMac right now, I may have had to kill you for mentioning that. ;)

What's good to clean these screens with, anyway? Is that special $30 kit from Apple the only safe way to go? Mine's getting a bit smudgy, but I'm afraid to apply any cleaner of any kind to it.

[Ramius]

Don't you know??? Linux hasn't ever required a patch either.

Oh, nevermind, I guess my little google search that located patch #101,000+ doesn't apply, since they can't take out their frustration on Linus Torvalds, or won't, whichever comes first. I wonder where they started numbering those patches? :-)

Yeesh, I'm tired of all this "my OS can beat up your OS" bull$#1t. NOTE for all of you other OS bigots: I run Windows, Mac OS 9.x, OSX, Linux (couple of flavors), Unix (couple of flavors), Solaris and VMS. I do what works for the given place, time and application.

Only the naive think that one OS can be everything everywhere for everyone all of the time, or the unemployed, but maybe that's the same thing. :-)

[Woahhs]

Did I mention the 22" Apple Cinema Display? I've had that with a G4 for a while now, but it's definitely front and center with the new G5.

Bitch!

[HairOfTheDog]

Only the naive think that one OS can be everything everywhere for everyone all of the time, or the unemployed, but maybe that's the same thing. :-)

LOL!

How would you like for this thread to be where you were trying to get advice and help? Might as well tell people to tie a rope on it and call it a boat anchor. -Would be as helpful as the damn disruptive alternate OS evangelists.

MS is the world most people are better off living in... I don't want to build a damn watch, I want to know what time it is.

[2Jedismom]

Thank you! I am having the same problem, although it seems to have abated for the time being. I changed everything to "Take no Action" so I could download a trial of PC-Cillin without it rebooting and I'll download the patch as soon as it is done.

Thank you again.

[Lloyd227]

"In other words we need to make sure port 4444 is blocked inbound AND outbound."

I'm just sitting here trying to figure out how to do this. Have 5 pcs behind a LInkSys router and figured there must be a simple way to do this at the rounter to block port 4444 there.

If so, it's not obvious. I can forward ports and trigger ports, but how in the heck does one block a port at the router?

All help appreciated as I'm (obviously) not sharp enough at this to be running a home network.

[freeangel]

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