New Windows Worm

[WMD]

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-04-30
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/01/1618224.shtml?tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201


Called the Sasser worm.  Exploits some flaw in lsass.exe.  Acts like Blaster. \o/

[Refalm]

I even saw this on TV news.
It surprises me that the TV news always says that all computers will be infected and that you need an anti-virus scanner to avoid it.

[cahult]

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[solarismka]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
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[Xeen]

I was too tired to read the entire article for details, but apparently the bug that this new worm expoits was created by the April Microsoft Monthly Patches.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20040430/tc_cmp/19205541

 

quote:Microsoft is investigating the problem, but has yet to post a patch for the patch.

[WMD]

It's another one of THOSE?     Just more proof that Windows is forever crippled until they rewrite the whole damn thing.  The current system has everything intertwined with everything else.  :rolleyes:

[M51DPS]

quote:Microsoft is investigating the problem, but has yet to post a patch for the patch.

Tomorrow's News: Microsoft is investigating the problem, but has yet to post a patch for the patch for the patch for the patch for the patch.

[Xeen]

It's official! Billy Gates is a threat to this planet:

 

quote:Internet worm spreads worldwide, slowing trains, mail, post

Article

[ May 03, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]

[ErwinJ]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
[QB]It's another one of THOSE?      Just more proof that Windows is forever crippled[/QB

Well, that is not really surprising if you have the cream of your coders work on useless shit like

this.

 

quote: Microsoft Corp. is unveiling copyright protection software to allow rented songs or movies to be used on portable players, cellular phones and other devices.

The company's latest "digital rights management" software, code-named Janus, was released Monday. It will give songs and videos purchased through subscription services a sort of digital expiration date that works even when the data is transferred from a computer. The technology also protects the content against piracy.

The goal is to make it easier for companies who want customers to rent songs or videos, rather than own them, to also let those users play back the content on portable players.

*Renting* music? You *are* shitting me, aren't you?

[choasforages]

yeah, the only holes in my system are going to be closed soon. thank god for selinux and trustedbsd. lazyness is my systems only weakness. still gotta get my barcode authentication working. (yes, i can do that, just have to make the cards and scan them into passwd) so if you managed to get into my system im probably unconcious with a nice gash in my head.

[FOO]

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[DukePuke]

btw i dont know much about this shit and linux too, but if you will launch worm with wine, under root , whats gonna happen?

[Enmity]

You must be one hell of a dumbass to do that.

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
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[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by DukePuke:
btw i dont know much about this shit and linux too, but if you will launch worm with wine, under root , whats gonna happen?

Probably nothing.  Blaster and Sasser exploit parts of Windoze's networking services, which (obviously) don't run in Linux.