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I have had a total of 6 people call me lately and ask me "What do i do about this rpc port thing blah blah"
i just wanna know how many people out there know people that are affected. cause i am willing to bet not many ao members are vuln to this worm..
4 friends called me to remove it from their home computers , and i know a friend at her work all computers were infected ...
I sent out a general message to all my users containing links to symantec's fix and M$' patch and told them to forward it to their home email, download the two proggies, disconnect from the net, run the fix _then_ run the patch and then carry on as usual.
I know of only two infections in my 650 user base and they were both dial up..... go figure....
well no one my place has more than 300 PCs all running win xp /win 2000 very few with 98 and lin. no one really called up or complained, until i told the threat they were under...i mailed it to all....and i saw still all the PC s except a one are not patched. Nobody here gives Damm abt this thing. reallly sad situation
ive had 4 mates call me about removal of msblast, these were all people i lived with in my first year of uni, who once they knew i could hit the keyboard in an almost psuedo random way, had me fix every single computer problem that occured, there were another 20 odd people that relied on me for computer repair!
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Only got a few computers, but i sent out a email to all the users with the fix from the symantec site attcahed, got everyone to run this, and then told the the URL's for the fixes.
Everyone was quite worried about this, maybe im finally drilling it in to them, that security is importent.
Anyway, no computers were infected, and only one mate rang up to ask my advice.
I've had a few personal contacts - Work was safe, but the I knew it was from the outset.
I have disks I give to people at work to take home to fix their machines (Along with a suggestion about firewalls & patches)
Personaly an average of 4 machines per working day over 6 working days, plus.. 6 to a peak of 25 enquiries per day over 7 days..
Plus had to make sure all the systems going out (new systems) were patched..
but then repairs are what we do.. at the same time removed an average of 2 p0rn Dialers per machine, 6 systems that were brought in with suspected Blaster ..had PORN Dialers and Parasite-Ware.. two machines had 5 porn dailers each..
Spayware/Parsiteware/porn-dialers normaly account for 80% of my software repair work..
cheers
I'm in the same boat as steve on this one - my work network has not been affected (other than the inbound denied packets on port 135).. But a few of my friends/family/etc have asked me to help.. I downloaded everything they will need (removal tool, patches, etc.), created some instructions, burned all that to a CD.. Now if I'm asked, I just hand them a copy of the CD....
Same here... Not infection at work but alot of co-worker and friend machine got infeted. I put them the FixBlast and a link to download the patch on a disk and they usually do fine with the little txt file for instruction. :)
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
Let's see...
My roommate, my cousin, a 3 friends from my program, a business associate and 3 friends from back home. It's been fun, but it's starting to get a lil boring... I want something new to fix. :)
Hundreds. My once slow paced tech support job has turned into 8 hours of blaster this blaster that. The ISP I work for has decided to cut off Internet to anyone with the virus until the comp has been cleaned so there nice and angry by the time I talk to them. Who ever created that virus needs a swift kick in the balls. Now that I think about it a few people at Microsoft deserve one to for allowing that hole to exist.
I warned alot of people about this worm and a few didn't listen i had 4 calls three friends and one sister in law :rolleyes:
wayyy to many, i have lost count
yeah...same here. but its good business.