Re: 10 minutes to Sasser?

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:16:21 -0600

Greetings --

    As long as the computer user has been practicing "safe hex,"
he/she has a whole lot less to worry about. The patch that fixed the
vulnerability that Sasser attacks was released to the public about two
weeks ago. (Which is how the malefactors learned of the vulnerability
in the first place. They then designed their worm to take advantage
of the gap, knowing full well that an awful lot of people hadn't
learned a thing after Blaster swept the Internet last year.) Also, a
properly configured firewall will prevent infection by Sasser, even if
the machine is unpatched.

Bruce Chambers 

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"octavius schmalz" <arabesque@web.web> wrote in message 
news:pan.2004.05.03.21.05.39.52000@web.web...
>I just heard on the news that if you connect a new computer to the
> internet, you will be infected with the Sasser worm within 10 
> minutes.
> By new, I am surmising that it is a MS-based PC and doesn't have the
> latest MS patches or the latest AV data updates.
> If this 10 minute figure is true, how can we expect anyone to not 
> have the
> virus?
> There needs to be a better way. Are the virus makers winning the 
> war? It
> seems so.

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