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Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm

The MSBlast worm has caused widespread infection on the Internet. This ZDNet Australia analysis... Read more

12 August, 2003 by Patrick Gray

FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect

...officials confirmed on Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month... Read more

1 September, 2003 by David Becker and Matt Hines

Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm

What to do about a worm exploiting widely publicised holes in Microsoft Windows Read more

12 August, 2003 by Robert Vamosi

MSBlast worm takes down major bank

...s largest bank, Nordea, has become the biggest European victim of the MSBlast worm. The bank was forced to close 80 branches across Finland after... Read more

15 August, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

Windows patches may become automatic

...2004. Automatic installation of security patches might have helped prevent the recent MSBlast worm, which successfully attacked hundreds of thousands of PCs that had not... Read more

21 August, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

DirectX attack expected - patch Windows now

Microsoft seems to have survived the MSBlast worm attack, but now the company is urging Windows users to patch... Read more

18 August, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Microsoft shuts down Update address

As part of its effort to stop the progress of the MSBlast worm, Microsoft is killing off the Windows Update address that the self... Read more

18 August, 2003 by Ina Fried

'We have a lot more work to do' - Microsoft

...Trustworthy Computing initiative, Scott Charney, says the Windows vulnerability on which the MSBlast worm is based is a sign the software heavyweight has "a lot... Read more

14 August, 2003 by Patrick Gray

Symantec: 'It's a horrible world out there'

...and send them out. It's like the kid who reconfigured the MSBlast worm and sent it out as a new variant Read more

9 December, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

The A to Z of security

...cut its own slice of this lucrative market. The unleashing of the MSBlast worm shortly afterwards - which exploited a massive vulnerability in Windows to infect... Read more

14 November, 2006 by Natasha Lomas

Homeland Security urges Windows fix

...flaw has some similarities to the Windows bug that enabled the notorious MSBlast worm to spread in 2003. Both security vulnerabilities are related to a... Read more

11 August, 2006 by Joris Evers

'Patch Tuesday' proves busy for Microsoft

...very limited attack" that already exploited this flaw, he said. The infamous MSBlast worm, which wreaked havoc in 2003, exploited a similar flaw, related to... Read more

9 August, 2006 by Joris Evers

Windows AntiSpyware will be free

...spotlight on consumers began a year and a half ago, after the MSBlast worm infected millions of home PCs. The worm taunted Microsoft's founder... Read more

16 February, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto and Robert Lemos

MSBlast writer thrown in slammer

...a $250,000 fine. The author of the original version of the MSBlast worm has yet to be caught Read more

31 January, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Microsoft aims to increase time between patches

...have more time to react. "Take the RPC vulnerability -- that enabled the MSBlast worm. It was a buffer overrun and it scanned for other systems... Read more

18 November, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

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