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MSBlast infects eight million PCs
News New data from Microsoft suggests that at least eight million Windows computers have been infected by the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm since last August -- many times more than previously thought. A survey of 2,000 computers completed by Symantec found...
[April 5, 2004, 10:05]
MSBlast spreads fast but impact is limited
Talkback Hi I own a computer store and since monday so far every second client is infected by msblast I am using the patch available for the systems and so far its working for me
[August 13, 2003, 18:17]
MSBlast still spreading strongly
News Earlier reports that network traffic caused by the MSBlast worm dropped 30 percent to 40 percent may not mean that the worm is slowing, a major provider of network services said on Friday. In reality, the rate at which the MSBlast worm -- named for...
[August 18, 2003, 8:40]
MSBlast spawns variants as users race to patch
News As the MSBlast worm continues its spread -- to approximately 2,500 new computers each hour -- antivirus firms said that a new variant had been released. Security company Symantec, which directly measures the spread of the worm via sensors...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
MSBlast spreads fast but impact is limited
News The MSBlast worm is forcing IT departments to work overtime, but the damage seems to be somewhat contained, at least in the working world. Unlike many viruses, however, the warning about MSBlast appeared well before the virus.
[August 13, 2003, 9:04]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback I didn't have the MSBLAST worm--but something very similiar---and even more destructive. I was having major computer problems--the blue face of death out of nowhere, malicious programs suddenly popping up--trying to entice me to click on them, a...
[March 29, 2004, 9:04]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
News The MSBlast worm has caused widespread infection on the Internet. If there is a process named "msblast.exe" running on the system, then it has been infected by the worm. After the system has rebooted it will be necessary to delete the worm's...
[August 12, 2003, 14:59]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback This is not true as the MSBlast virus has also infected windows 98 machines. In fact it has infected every computer on the campus network at the University of Leeds. The latest DAT file (4284.dat) from Mcafee does not work.
[August 12, 2003, 16:03]
Why did MSBlast fail to take down Microsoft?
News I'm sure that MSBlast and its variations will be eating away at Internet traffic for a long time. MSBlast, like most other worms, came shortly after the announcement of a DCOM Remote Procedure Call (RPC) vulnerability in Windows NT, 2000, and XP...
[August 28, 2003, 13:30]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback Is it the case that MSBlast does not affect systems running Win 98, or is it just that MicroSoft won't support Win 98 by issuing a patch?
[August 12, 2003, 22:29]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback What is MSBLAST.EXE-09FF84F2.pf it is in my C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch file. I have cleaned up the worm but this is still on my computer in this file. I don't know if i should delete it or not.
[August 13, 2003, 4:41]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback Deleting the file msblast.exe file from the System32 file folder was not all that easy. I also did as you sugested with the Processes tab and MSBlast was not there. After I shut Norton down I did a system search for msblast and found nothing.
[August 13, 2003, 5:41]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback i have the worm virus on my computer and i have found the file msblast.exe on my hard drive.the virus won't let me copy, past, cut etc, and it will not allow me to access some programs on my computer and the worst part of all is that i cannot...
[August 13, 2003, 10:22]
MSBlast writer thrown in slammer
News FBI agents arrested Parson at his home in Hopkins, Minnesota, in August 2003, just two weeks after his "MSBlast.B" variant began to tunnel into Microsoft Windows-based computers. Parson pleaded guilty last summer in a Seattle US District Court to...
[January 31, 2005, 8:40]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback I had the virus MSBLAST. Norton Antivirus 2002 was setup with auto updates.but it missed the MSBLAST virus! Symptons were PC kept rebooting after a few minutes of being connected to the net. However, I connected via my backup isp AOL, and I was...
[August 13, 2003, 10:30]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback Please terminate the process msblast.exe from taskmanager.and then try to delete this file. It won't you fetch updates from Mirosoft site (and that's the purpose of this worm). Otherwise boot in safe mode and then delete this file.
[August 13, 2003, 13:36]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback I hadn't bothered to check the numerous helpful sites on this lit'l bastard msblast.exe. PG, But I seem to recall Dan Rather talking about it.but I digress. My win2k system was hoplessly compromised, so I re-formatted and reinstalled win2k.
[August 13, 2003, 15:17]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback Is this related to MSBLAST and can it be addressed? We are also experiencing a lot of SVCHOST.EXE errors, even on uninfected machines.
[August 13, 2003, 16:30]
Code for MSBlast variant posted online
News A piece of code that exploits the critical vulnerability for which Microsoft issued a patch only last week has been posted online, raising fears of an imminent MSBlast-style attack Four days after the patch was released, a piece of code was...
[February 17, 2004, 11:20]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback I'm trying to clean up the MSBlast worm from my computer. I did delete the file MSBlast.exe from the Registry. Hi, But, I'm unable to logon to the following web-site as suggested : http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
[August 13, 2003, 18:53]
