Any one hit with the msblast worm?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:56 pm

I had *something* the other day that was shutting my computer down repeatedly. I don't know what it was since I was half asleep at the time, and I only woke up when it turned itself back on each time. I did a system restore and installed some updates I'd downloaded - it was fine after that. I guess the patch was in that mess of updates (but I'd been having trouble fully installing my updates, so I kept pushing them off).

It really hurts when you don't know your computer or what's going on in the computer world.

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:22 am

trythil wrote:Of course, the really stupid part about all this is that the patch was released <b>LAST MONTH</b>, and tons of people still got infected...

I have cron run Windows Update automatically, but I was offline for about a few months (DSL card broken) and the instant I got on dialup it was clogged...

I can install a stateful firewall, but I don't want to. Why? I need to allow non-established instance connections to any random port. Though I can selectively block and unblock ports, I still think it's stupid and pointless if they could just fix the security.

As soon as Blaster is over, temp firewalls go down and any joe random 123.45.67.89 can access any portport on the box... including Open Stupid Security Hole, or OpenSSH. Time to get 0wnz3d by some script kiddie, YES!

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:32 am

danielwang wrote: I can install a stateful firewall, but I don't want to. Why? I need to allow non-established instance connections to any random port. Though I can selectively block and unblock ports, I still think it's stupid and pointless if they could just fix the security.

Then you have very bad server software.

Security principle numero uno is the principle of least privilege. If you have software that needs to accept connections on any random port, you have bigger issues than firewalling.

danielwang wrote:As soon as Blaster is over, temp firewalls go down and any joe random 123.45.67.89 can access any portport on the box... including Open Stupid Security Hole, or OpenSSH. Time to get 0wnz3d by some script kiddie, YES!

For remote access over an insecure network, OpenSSH is far better than raw telnet, raw Windows Terminal Service, raw X, or whatever. I suggest you actually use it before blasting it.

NME · Post by **NME** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:59 am

God fucking damnit trythil, stop trying to teach him shit, he's far too stupid and ignorant to learn or get it through his thick fucking head that he needs to get a goddamn life and stop looking for friends on a website that so obviously hates him.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:01 am

quit drinking coffee out of my pot NME

NME · Post by **NME** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:04 am

I drank from it, then I peed in it. Facker.

FACK YOU MAN.

Violence-Jackoff

Shit Piss Goddamn Motherfuckers

I feel coke.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:40 pm

Otohiko wrote:Wow I suddenly fee even better about having 98. Hah!

No XP for me, I'm considering douing a dual-boot 98/Linux though.

Funny thng - when my compute suddenly shut down at 4:15 on thursday, I actually thought it was the worm. However, that was not the case....

XP kicks 98 in the 'nads regarding RAM. Win98 will NOT take a Gig of RAM

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:29 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:I had *something* the other day that was shutting my computer down repeatedly. I don't know what it was since I was half asleep at the time, and I only woke up when it turned itself back on each time. I did a system restore and installed some updates I'd downloaded - it was fine after that. I guess the patch was in that mess of updates (but I'd been having trouble fully installing my updates, so I kept pushing them off). It really hurts when you don't know your computer or what's going on in the computer world.

i had that same thing happen to me. i was half a sleep myself and it restarted my computer. it happend again today twice. any ways my friend's mom got that virus on her laptop. uh oh. dont know if they got it fixed yet or not.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:32 pm

OmniStrata wrote:
Otohiko wrote:Wow I suddenly fee even better about having 98. Hah!

No XP for me, I'm considering douing a dual-boot 98/Linux though.

Funny thng - when my compute suddenly shut down at 4:15 on thursday, I actually thought it was the worm. However, that was not the case....
XP kicks 98 in the 'nads regarding RAM. Win98 will NOT take a Gig of RAM

Yea, but who said I have a gig of RAM?

That's still a distant dream...

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:14 pm

Yay, I didn't get hit by it, yay, go hardware firewall.