RE: New variant. Blast.b

From: Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2_at_charter.net)
Date: 08/15/03

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    To: glennp@datasync.com
Date: 15 Aug 2003 07:28:03 -0400

    On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:13, Glenn Pearl wrote:
    > The majority of my support calls regarding this worm have been from home
    > users.
    >
    > So I have a question:
    > Consider a home user with a single system who is Internet connected, but
    > not doing any sort of Microsoft-based networking at all. Would not
    > unbinding the Client for Microsoft Networks from TCP/IP in the network
    > connection properties (NIC or dialup, makes no difference) completely
    > prevent an attack from this worm or any of its variants?
    >
    > Regards,
    > Glenn Pearl

    Why would you not turn on the built-in firewall (in XP) and patch the
    machine? Unbinding Client for MS Networks is more of a dirty hack than
    a solution.

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