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Well the only network i have to look over is at my home i only have three computers running win2000/XP and none of them got effected. But i did have one friend who had just re-installed windows XP and within 5 minutes of connecting to the internet to update his computer he got it lol. He called me up at midnight screaming about how his computer would shutdown within a couple minutes of starting it.
i haven't had any of my machines at the office get infected, but some of my users had their home computers blasted. i warned them..sent out an email with a brief description of what could happen if this wasn't patched, but some of them clearly ignored my email.
"why pay attention to our admin when he warns us about a viurs spreading, what does he know"....dumbasses LOL
I searched and searched and searched and searched for a patch to the RPC/DCOM exploit that allows the worm to inhabit your machine, I found a disinfector, but i didn't have it, I just wanted to keep it that way. eventually, I found out that the exploit was patched in a security update long ago and I had been immune to it 3 months before it was written... go figure
we are finding about 2-3 machines per day for the last 4 or 5 days. All mgrs with laptops....hmmm...starting to see a pattern now...:)
We havent had any infections at work *CXGJarrod knocks on wood* :) but about 4 users here at work and about 10 family members have asked me about the worm.
I had patched about 30 servers for this the last week in July. Due to the firewall settings and the patches, I have not had any problems at work.
But from a personal level, 9 people so far have talked to me about this on their home computers.
I was worried about the win 2000 server at work, but it was set on autoupdate, so it seems ok.
We have a bunch of win2000 desktops that we took off the network a week before the ms blast problem started. We'll have to be careful when we reconnect.
I updated the xp laptop (home edition), which didn't have a firewall, but I updated norton before I connected to the net.
Norton caught and quarantined msblaster halfway through the first of 40 updates. I was able to complete all the updates.
Man, all these reports of infected computers makes you think....
What if there was a payload?
:eek:
ive had about 15 people speak with me about that blasted thing, im tired of hearing about it :P
around 20 people actually. But help has been given and im also tired of it. If people would have just patched their computers when it came out. Oh well i guess.
PeacE
-BoB