Re: Blaster guessed wrong I think !!!

From: Marina Roos (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 08/14/03 

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:11:53 GMT

Just make sure that all W2K's and XP's have this patch installed.

Marina

"APH" <aph@no-spammisnet.co.uk> schreef in bericht
news:#f2T#RkYDHA.1784@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> On a W2k stand alone machine I strated to get the "svchost.exe has
generated
> ... 2 messages and had problems if I hooked to to the Internet, and also
> with copying files from folders.
>
> W2k is patched to Sp3 but not 03-026.
>
> 1. Looked for registry entry and msblast.exe files couldn't find them
> anywhere.
> 2. Downloaded removal tool and ran that - didn't find anything
> 3. Applied Patch 03-026 that I had downloaded using another machine
> 4. Ran removal tool again - still not found.
>
> Perplexed read up some more and found that the worm guesses which
operating
> system you are running. Apparently there is an 80% chance it will attempt
> to exploit XP, and a 20% chance it will attempt to exploit W2k.
>
> If it guess wrong, then the process svchost.exe on the target machine will
> crash and the system become unstable, BUT THE INFECTION WILL FAIL.
>
> This is what i think has happended on my machine - but what I cannot
> establish (without running the machine), is if now having applied the
patch,
> the machine is secure?
>
> Anyone any ideas on this p[lease
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
>
>

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