Author Topic: New Windows Worm (Read 1250 times)

WMD · « **on:** 2 May 2004, 08:06 »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** 2 May 2004, 16:58 »

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 · « **Reply #2 on:** 2 May 2004, 23:42 »

solarismka · « **Reply #3 on:** 3 May 2004, 00:27 »

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Xeen · « **Reply #4 on:** 3 May 2004, 07:09 »

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

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

WMD · « **Reply #5 on:** 3 May 2004, 07:15 »

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 · « **Reply #6 on:** 3 May 2004, 23:27 »

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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 · « **Reply #7 on:** 3 May 2004, 23:51 »

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

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Internet worm spreads worldwide, slowing trains, mail, post

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

ErwinJ · « **Reply #8 on:** 4 May 2004, 16:49 »

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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 · « **Reply #9 on:** 4 May 2004, 20:21 »

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 · « **Reply #10 on:** 5 May 2004, 15:16 »

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DukePuke · « **Reply #11 on:** 5 May 2004, 16:28 »

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 · « **Reply #12 on:** 5 May 2004, 18:35 »

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

Xeen · « **Reply #13 on:** 5 May 2004, 19:49 »

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Originally posted by cahult:
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WMD · « **Reply #14 on:** 6 May 2004, 00:30 »

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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.