[AccessD]OT martin's problem

Martin Reid mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Tue Aug 12 05:05:22 CDT 2003


Nope but will do later. I just got that worm on this machine in work.

Not my week.

Martin



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Sanders" <stuart at pacific.net.hk>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD]OT martin's problem


> Just out of curiosity are you running Zonealarm or any of the other
personal firewalls?  (Symantec, Sygate, Tiny etc)
>
> In theory they could protect from worms such as this, but not if the buggy
service in question is allowed to listen to the attacked
> service port.
>
> Stuart
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> > Susan Harkins
> > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2003 11:32 AM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD]OT martin's problem
> >
> >
> > Yes, it really was just a nuisance -- thanks for the link -- 
> > I do want to
> > get rid of the key and the file. It took me a few tries to
> > get the patch
> > downloaded before it shut me down. That was challenging, but
> > beyond that it
> > was just annoying.
> >
> > Susan H.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VNam
> e=WORM_MSBLAST
> .A
> >
> > Has instructions to kill  worm in memory and remove from registry
startup
> > You may have problems downloading a patch. It is also directing a DOS
> > attack against
> > www.windowsupdate.com ;) .Interesting approach for a nuisance.
> >
> > Susan Harkins wrote:
> >
>
>
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