W32.Blaster.Worm Removal Tool
Downloads If your computer has been infected by the "MSBlast" worm (also known as "W32.Blaster" and "W32/LuvSan") you can get it off of your computer with this removal tool. It will terminate the W32.Blaster.Worm viral processes, delete the W32.Blaster.Worm...
[August 13, 2003, 1:11]
FBI Tracks Worm Writers
News Companies and home computer users have had to deal with the MSBlast worm -- also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan -- which started spreading on 11 August; a worm that attempted to plug the hole exploited by the MSBlast worm; and the Sobig.F...
[August 27, 2003, 8:35]
FBI Arrests MSBlast Worm Suspect
News We believe he is a key and significant player in the Blaster worm problem and that his arrest is a significant step forward," McKay said during a news conference. The worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, began spreading 11 August.
[September 1, 2003, 8:45]
Spread Of MSBlast Worm Slows
News Unlike the Slammer worm, which had significant negative effects on the Internet's infrastructure, the Blaster worm is not having a similar effect, as it is programmed to propagate much more slowly," Lloyd Taylor, Keynote's vice president of...
[August 13, 2003, 9:50]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback My WIN2K system has been infected with the blaster worm, but I don't see the msblast.exe or mblast.exe in my Task Manager. I ran the fixbalst Tool from Symantec but I get the message "W32.Blaster.Worm has not been found on your computer" When I m...
[August 16, 2003, 10:04]
Windows Won't Work? Time For A Mac
Talkback If winlogin is in your process list, then you probably have a virus (W32.Randex.E, a variant of Blaster: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.randex.e.html, or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
[February 25, 2004, 9:35]
Wikipedia Used To Spread Malware
News The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopaedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MS Blaster worm, with links to a supposed fix.
[November 6, 2006, 11:42]
MSBlast Spawns Variants As Users Race To Patch
News Security company Symantec, which directly measures the spread of the worm via sensors distributed throughout the Internet, said the number of computers compromised by MSBlast -- aka W32/Lovsan and W32.Blaster -- had reached 228,000 by midmorning...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
FBI Near Arrest In MSBlast Case
News Companies and home computer users have had to deal with the MSBlast worm -- also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan -- which started spreading on 11 August; a worm that attempted to plug the hole exploited by the MSBlast worm; and the Sobig.F...
[August 29, 2003, 9:00]
Squashing The Next Worm
News Despite numerous flaws in its code, the worm--also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan--infected more than 330,000 computers running Microsoft Windows. Two years after the Code Red and Nimda worms spread across the Internet, home users and many...
[August 15, 2003, 12:25]
New Windows Flaw Similar To MSBlast Bug
News The MSBlast worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, exploited a similar vulnerability that allowed a group of unknown hackers to load data on computers worldwide in an attempt to knock out servers that run Microsoft's update services.
[September 11, 2003, 10:57]
FBI Closes In On MSBlast Suspect
News Windows users have been battling the destructive worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, since 11 August, when the virus first began spreading via email attachments. The US Attorney's Office in Seattle confirmed it would hold a news...
[August 29, 2003, 11:25]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
News The worm is also known as W32.Blaster and W32/LuvSan. The fast-spreading MSBlast worm seems to be crashing as many Windows computers as it's infecting, demonstrating to administrators that they need to patch their systems, security experts said on...
[August 12, 2003, 8:55]
Protecting Yourself From The MSBlast Worm
Talkback Mcafee firewall would't work, still all better now.http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html removal tool= http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe
[December 25, 2003, 23:18]
Worm's Growth Contained As Deadline Looms
News Symantec has dubbed the worm "W32/Blaster. The MSBlast worm's infection rate has slowed as companies and home users clean up compromised computers, according to antivirus firms. Click here for help on countering the worm.
[August 15, 2003, 8:50]
Swen Prevention And Cure
Talkback I download a "patch" for blaster in the official website of Microsoft, I supposed that it is another "patch" for blaster. Hi, I have Swen too. First of all I recomend to open another mail account in www.operamail.com to avoid junk mail, spam...
[October 28, 2003, 3:22]
