Hello,
I want to warn everybody about the blaster worm I got
yesterday and fixed.Everybody with any os higher
than windows 98 is in danger.Everyone that is using internet
software related to at&t will get the virus immediatly
before you get to patch your computer.You might get the virus anyway no matter what connection you have.If you do get the virus
you have to reformat your computer using the recovery
software or msdos with the windows software.Than get a disk
and find another computer with windows 98 and internet than find the patch online and download it to the disk.once your computer is formated completly and you have the windows software loaded again.find the disk on your computer. run the patch(do not go on the internet)and restart your computer.Than install a powerful
firewall and up to date virus software.Than you're ready to
use the internet.
I had that virus too.. and I got so mad I licked my hd.. yeah.. while it was running.. so I got a electrick shock.. and now I got the virus..but I sneezed it out.. thats how I usually get rid of my viruses
suckers! i'll never get it, i use 98 & ME (well, and Linux )
it only affects XP and 2000 (they're both viruses themselves so it's nothing new )
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
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Registered 23/09/2002
Points 4811
16th August, 2003 at 05:23:53 -
i had the msblast.exe file in my system32 directory and the registry entry, but nothing was happening. so i deleted both the bastards.
I didnt even get it before i got the patch... where is it caught from?
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Hahah! I did a search and found msblast.exe in my system folder! And deleted the evil
thing! But it didn't do anything, wasn't it supposed to wipe your hard drive or somthing?
It's a timebomb, the virus sets up a file named msblast.exe and puts a registry key in
/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/UPDATE I believe that starts it up every time your computer is booted. First in 2000/XP hit Cntrl+Alt+Del then task manager. Go to processes and kill the msblast process. Next edit your registry key (the one above) and remove the reference to Msblast. Then go to your windows directory/System32 and blast it back to hell.
98/ME users, while booting your computer hit F8 to select your boot options, boot into command line only go into your windows directory, use the command "cd <dir>" where dir is your windoes directory. Type regedit, and get ready to remove that same class as above. Then Blast the virus to hell.
What this virus does is gets onto your computer, waits for an internet connection and then copies and sends itself over any open port it can. Then at a random time between 15th - 31st of any month, it will destroy windows, how lovely.
Strange... I never seem to get infected by these viruses/worms. There was that Love Bug worm, the Code Red virus, and god knows what else, and my computer has never been infected by a single virus despite the fact I hang out online all the time and regurlarly transfer files. It's... wierd.
Maybe it's coz I'm using Win 98 SE, the only real safe O/S out there.
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
"It's a timebomb, the virus sets up a file named msblast.exe and puts a registry key in
/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/UPDATE I believe that starts it up every time your computer is booted."
yep
"First in 2000/XP hit Cntrl+Alt+Del then task manager. Go to processes and kill the msblast process. Next edit your registry key (the one above) and remove the reference to Msblast. Then go to your windows directory/System32 and blast it back to hell."
yep
"98/ME users, while booting your computer hit F8 to select your boot options, boot into command line only go into your windows directory, use the command "cd <dir>" where dir is your windoes directory. Type regedit, and get ready to remove that same class as above. Then Blast the virus to hell."
it wont get into 98/ME if you don't put it there on purpose, because theres no known exploit in the RPC service on those systems
"What this virus does is gets onto your computer, waits for an internet connection and then copies and sends itself over any open port it can."
what a load of crap..
1. it doesn't wait for an internet connection
2. why copy itself???
3. can you explain why (and how) a program would send itself on any port it can?
4. all it does is scan for vulnerable RPC services and when it finds one, it exploits the security hole to make the service execute a piece of code that creates the registry key and the msblast.exe file
"Then at a random time between 15th - 31st of any month, it will destroy windows, how lovely."
just amazingly lovely, isn't it
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
I tested it, and it infected my whole network, I checked my ports and it had taken over about 250 of them (I love linux for this reason), it's a self replicator, unless it's a smart virus...hmm wonder if it's adaptive..
Sorry, now that I look at it again, it actually had gotten into my windows port scanning software. Wait no, what the hell? I've got some other type of virus on here, and Norton can't figure out what it is. And now 57 of my ports are opened by this unknown thing...shit.
what exactly do you mean by "taking over" your ports???
and no viruses are really adaptive, mostly its programmers reverse-engineering that causes the lovely "mutations"
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
umm, I'd rather not say what my windows port scanner is, but the linux one is a custom job by my friend Mikey who taught me linux and networking to begin with. Oh, and I think the Virus is named PortDeath, but I can't verify it (Cause my hard drive binary is all 0's now:/)
"I'd rather not say what my windows port scanner is"
i think you're getting a lil paranoid now
anyways i use SuperScan, which is a little slow, but it does the trick
and i'm planning to make my own super-fast-but-not-too-reliable-if-you-have-a-sucky-ip-stack soon
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
Hmm, the only virus I've ever gotten is the CIH virus, which I got from a klik game a couple of years ago. It cost me my main project at the time (Sleep Dreams).
I got the patch as soon as I heard the news on the BBC. My computer seems to be fine.
The only viruses I managed to get were the CIH, that I got from a copy of Easy CD Creator (and, consequently, destroyed the BIOS of my machine ), a JOKE virus from a copy of Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Edition (I always remember that virus when someone says the word "Viagra", wonder why? ), and a Macro virus at one of my school's computers when they asked me to run a virus check (there were like a hundred infected files, with the same Macro virus, so I just sit and laugh away at the list, for no apparent reason ).
Looks like I have no luck with official things like CDs and school computers
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
I don't get it - how do so many people manage to get infected by viruses? No virus has touched my machine for at least three years. Firewall, up to date antivirus scanner (not that I need it) plus an ounce of common sense (hey! let's open message.txt.exe in this email with no text and see what it is!) and you are safe. Is it really that hard?
Only serious virus i have got was that Sasser virus, although that was a quick fix, search google for a removal program, turn off my system restore and voila.
I think Firewalls are way too annoying, i tried the Norton Internet Security Firewall and it was the fiorst firewalll i have ever tried, and will be my last. it kept popping up time after time and was really bugging me.
Router firewall, its so powerful sometimes it blocks me out of using my connection, no bloody virus is getting in. And i rarely download things, and when done its always scanned.
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I've never gotten a virus using that, I've only had viruses, very bad ones at that, under norton, the only time I killed my computer was when I accidentally replaced the bottscreen file
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), a JOKE virus from a copy of Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Edition (I always remember that virus when someone says the word "Viagra", wonder why? 
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