Re: Does Blaster Worm Fix Affect IP Browsing?

From: Marina Roos (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 08/17/03 

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:11:14 GMT

The 'fix' as you call it, is not a cure when you're already infected with
msblast. It is a patch that prevents your computer getting infected.
Open Taskmanager and look for msblast.exe-proces. If you find it, kill it.
Go to www.sophos.com to get the removaltool.

Marina

"CP de la Cruz" <Jcpdelacruz@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:029301c3643f$f23bfa00$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a Win2000 PC on a Toshiba USB broadband modem
> connection, and another connection to a home subnet using
> a Macronix 10/100 NIC. I have Internet Connection
> Sharing enabled on the USB connection, as a "gateway" for
> Internet access from the subnet. I do not have a
> firewall, so I just make sure I always have the latest
> virus definitions installed. Over the external broadband
> connection, I've been sharing some non-critical folders
> on my PC in read-write mode with some friends, with only
> strong-password protection. To access the folder, all
> they had to do was to open Win Explorer or IE and type my
> ISP-issued IP address \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\MyShareName and
> they could view all shared resources on my PC. If they
> wanted to open one of the shared folders, all they had to
> do was either provide a valid user ID and the password
> when prompted, or they could map the shared folder as a
> network drive with the same ID and password. When my PC
> got hit by the Blaster Worm, I updated my system with the
> security patch, and also got all the latest bug fixes via
> Windows Update. Now, however, no one is able to find
> their way to my PC, and they are getting the error
> message "network path to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not found". I
> checked my TCP/IP settings on the USB network connection
> and I do NOT even have TCP/IP Filtering enabled! From
> any other PC connected on the subnet though, I have no
> problem accessing my "gateway" shared folders if I type
> the ISP-issued IP address in Explorer.
>
> I'm not sure if I just did something wrong, but would
> anyone know if the Blaster security fix (or any other
> recent Win Update fix) might have blocked inbound access
> for browsing my shared resources? Any suggestions on how
> I can fix this?

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