[rmasinag]

Just what I needed at work....2 hours extra babysitting crying professors during finals week that we continually remind to say Ok whenever the new update is ready to install. Now, compatibility be dammed I just set their PC's to auto download and install patches.

And the ZoneAlarm fix was not made for PC illeterate ppl. I removed a sasser form a friend running ZA yesterday.


All this S(*& for bragging rights. We should let Saddam Hussein free and give him the job of white collar crime castration, esp geeks!

I admit that M$ Windoz is holier than any religion itself, but they're only half the blame.

Now.... back to studying for Physics finals........... :|

[rmasinag]

Just what I needed at work....2 hours extra babysitting crying professors during finals week that we continually remind to say Ok whenever the new update is ready to install. Now, compatibility be dammed I just set their PC's to auto download and install patches.

And the ZoneAlarm fix was not made for PC illeterate ppl. I removed a sasser form a friend running ZA yesterday.


All this S(*& for bragging rights. We should let Saddam Hussein free and give him the job of white collar crime castration, esp geeks!

I admit that M$ Windoz is holier than any religion itself, but they're only half the blame.

Now.... back to studying for Physics finals........... :|

[Jonathan1]

Thank god for SUS. We implemented it in early Feb nation wide. That coupled with a in-house patch scanning utility has made my life drastically easier. I have 3 systems left to patch. 1 system with 04-11 and 2 systems with 04-12. Still trying to figure out why the systems never downloaded the patches but 3 out of several hundred is a heck of a lot easier to deal with then sneakerneting around to every system to check that the install occurred through a script. Now if MS would only get this new version of SUS out that can do Office and other MS product updates my hellish life in patch purgatory will be over.

Oh and what is the deal with MS dropping the ball with the release date of SP2 for XP?

[Jonathan1]

PS- UPDATE YOUR OS X SYSTEM NOW! NOW NOW NOW!!! Before its too late!!

http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...3_Client).html

Oh wait. No one cares about decimating Apple. Never mind

[Zack Mahdavi]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

PS- UPDATE YOUR OS X SYSTEM NOW! NOW NOW NOW!!! Before its too late!!

http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...3_Client).html

Oh wait. No one cares about decimating Apple. Never mind

And I like it that way...

[bjornkeizers]

I already updated my laptop. This seems like a really nasty one. My internet speeds have slowed to a crawl and sometimes the connection drops completely! Very annoying.

[spacerace]

my speeds have been fantastic for the last 3 or 4 days ! perhaps many scared people have taken their machines offline completely !

[Kacey Green]

A friend of mine recently brought a machine infected with this to me for repair, but it had @least 2 other viri/worms that need removal.

[DerekTheGeek]

I am a little confused. How can this "virus" infect a system without executing some program or piece of code? I can understand it scanning for open ports but if one is behind a firewall what's the danger? Any links on how it works?

- Me

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by DerekTheGeek

I am a little confused. How can this "virus" infect a system without executing some program or piece of code? I can understand it scanning for open ports but if one is behind a firewall what's the danger? Any links on how it works?

See http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33998.htm for buffer overruns. That is what Sasser is. No user intervention required, just like Blaster and Slammer.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by DerekTheGeek

I am a little confused. How can this "virus" infect a system without executing some program or piece of code? I can understand it scanning for open ports but if one is behind a firewall what's the danger? Any links on how it works?

Addendum on what Ed said: it "injects" code through a software bug in the LSASS.EXE process, which listens for network connections by default.

If you're firewalled, you might not get hacked immediately -- but be careful, as if an infected machine (say, laptop) gets "behind" the firewall you'd be in huge trouble.

(If you have the built-in XP firewall turned on, it'll most likely mitigate the situation somewhat -- but you should still do a Windows Update ASAP!)

--janak