[windows2000] Microsoft releases Msblaster patch...five months later!
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:35:56 -0500
From Bink.NU
5 Months after MS blaster worm spreaded Microsoft has released a removal
tool, good work!
Microsoft released a removal tool for the MSBlast worm on Monday after
Internet service providers complained that home users' PCs infected with the
malicious program are still causing network congestion.
The MSBlast worm, also commonly called the Blaster worm, started spreading
last August and is believed to have spread to hundreds of thousands of
systems. While most corporations have cleaned up the worm, Microsoft has
found that a large number of home users are still unknowingly infected, the
software giant said in a statement.
"For many users in this situation, there is little indication that they are
infected other than possible performance degradation," Microsoft said in a
statement. "And those infected are still actively transmitting the worm,
causing Internet congestion in the process."
However, Microsoft developers have had their work cut out for them. Despite
a Windows work stoppage of more than two months while programmers reviewed
the code, security flaws continue to crop up and be exploited by malicious
worm writers.
Microsoft's aim in releasing the latest tool is to reduce the amount of
traffic being born by ISPs by cleaning up a significant number of home
computers.
The tool can be found on
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70a0d8b-fe98-493f-
ad76-bf673a38b4cf&displaylang=en
note link may wrap to the next line be sure to copy it all.
JK
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