Aug 13, 2003 13:59
It's official. The new worm, some call it Blaster, others call it LovSan, I like to call it the motha-fuckin' thing that's gonna make Ashley murder the 45 yr old man who sits all day at his computer watchin' kiddie pron and thinking of ways to get back at the world because he feels screwed because his wife of 5 years left him 15 years ago. And if you're reading this and you're that 45 year old lonely man...watch out. That's a long name.
I have nothing else to talk about. I really don't. I've had this computer for less than a month and some jackass creates a little diddy called A WORM and infects my new computer. HEY FUCKER! I need this computer to keep me sane! I'm gonna need it for college! UGH!
So, here's what the virus does. I turn the computer on and everything is great. I sign online and this message pops up saying the REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL or RPC and terminated unexpectedly and my computer must shut down in one minute. At least it warns me you say. Then it shuts me down. I'm gonna give everyone some info on this blaster bitch so you can be fully aware of the situation and PREPARE yourself in case you're infected.
At 11:34 A.M. Pacific Time on August 11, Microsoft began investigating a worm reported by Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). A worm is a subclass of a virus that generally spreads without user action and distributes complete copies (possibly modified) of itself across networks. A worm can consume memory or network bandwidth, thus causing a computer to stop responding.
Update Several antivirus companies have responded and written tools to remove the Blaster worm.
Who Is Affected?
Users of the following products are affected:
Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0
Microsoft Windows® 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003
The virus was discovered August 11. Customers who had previously applied the security patch MS03-026 are protected. To determine if the worm is present on your machine, see the technical details section of the PSS Security Response Team Alert.
Why We Are Issuing This Alert
A new worm known as W32.Blaster.Worm (also known as MBlaster, W32/Lovsan.worm, MSBlast, W32.blaster.worm, Win32.posa.worm, Win32.poza.worm) has been identified that is seeking to exploit the vulnerability that was addressed by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026. Blaster is designed to launch a denial of service attack against Microsoft's Windows Update Web site.
-Microsoft