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: > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >