[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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