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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:54:52 -0700

Greetings --

    The original patch, from KB823980, was found to be flawed, and was
replaced by the one from KB824146.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-39
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824146

What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

W32.Blaster.Worm a.k.a. W32/Lovesan.Worm
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

W32.Blaster.Worm Removal Tool
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

W32.Welchia.Worm a.k.a. W32/Nachi.Worm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.html

W32.Welchia.Worm Removal Tool
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.removal.tool.html

McAfee AVERT Stinger
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger

Bruce Chambers

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"Alice" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I remember several months ago there was a large amount of
> information about a virus or worm named Blast or Blaster
> or SoBig. I think it was MBlast.exe or something similar.
> It appeared to only infect WinXP systems. My previous
> WinXP had a download (Critical Update) for this problem
> and it was KB823980 and I could see it listed when I went
> to the Control Panel / Add/Delete Programs.
> However, my son gave us a new notebook with WinXP on it.
> However, we remembered the Blast(er) problem and looked in
> the Add/Remove Programs and did not see KB23980 listed. We
> went to the MS Critical Update page and there was no
> Critical Update there to be downloaded for KB823980, nor
> was there a Critical Update download for KB824146, which
> we have learned is supposed to be a replacement for
> KB823980. Can someone please tell us (senior citizens)
> what we should do now to ease our minds about this 'virus'
> (Blast/Blaster) which caused so much damage a few months
> ago? My husband was advised (in a previous post) to
> download KB824146 from another site (other than MS), which
> we are really hesitant in doing because we would not like
> to do something that could cause problems on this new
> notebook. Can someone please help solve this problem for
> us? Could it be we are already protected with some other
> Critical Update download? Maybe our version of WinXP is
> already protected? Please help us.
>
>

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