Sasser Virus

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Jorinn
[cynical]No it doesn't have as much inherent vulnerabilities[/cynical] Dunno about the rest but there is a .net equivelent called mono it think.

What do you mean "inherent vulnerabilities". Appreciation of all these technologies and why they are so useful, gives you the reasons why Windows is on almost every desktop in the world.

tuxy

Originally posted by bus77
I use win98.
Im untouchable me:D

when win 98 was the most common os those were fun days
so many people had file sharing open to the net with full read/write access

cournioni

The worm seems to have disabled my norton antivirus autoprotect and I have to keep enabling it every time I start my computer. Has anyone any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Nick_oliveri

If its a case that sasser has turned off autoprotect, and is therefore malicious, my following statement is null.

Sasser is an annoyance....restart restart restart..
It doesnt seem to be malicious. This German guy is to be arrested or to quote Euronews "employed". Did the virus drop planes from the sky, set off nuclear warheads from America, or kill anyone? I dunno, but i doubt it. If Osama was a programmer and found this security hole things could be a lot worse. Jesus, you would think it formats your entire hard disk in Fat32 or something the way you all worry about it. Relax. I beleive corparations owe a lot to this german dood, repair prices and so forth, even though it takes a simple tool that cant be more than a megabyte to download and about half an hour or less to get rid of. Whole load of crap for nothing. And i'll admit i didn't get the sasser variant (got the one before that) but i seen it in action, and iv'e had viruse's 100 times worse.

secret_squirrel

Since Sasser-E was released after the german guy was nicked..ppl are now assuming that there were a group of VX'ers behind it rather than just him.

He's also confessed to the Netsky virus as well.....which makes him (and his mates) malicous even if sasser isnt that malious. (Although I would call any virus that causes multiple reboots and takes out various bits of Scandinavian Banks and bits of the UK coast guard as pretty malicous. Even if the reboots appear to be down to bad programming.)

seamus

Originally posted by secret_squirrel
Even if the reboots appear to be down to bad programming.)

Not so much bad programming, as unnecessarily paniky defaults. The infection is due to bad programming, but you can stop the machine very easily from shutting down.
Although the flip side being that if it didn't keep rebooting, most people wouldn't even realise they'd been infected.

secret_squirrel

Naah ya missed my point I wasnt refering to bad programming by M$, when sasser first came out, the reports were that most of the reboots were caused by bad coding within the sasser worm rather than a diliberate action of the sasser worm. Afaik thats still the case with variants B-E.

seamus

Originally posted by secret_squirrel
Naah ya missed my point I wasnt refering to bad programming by M$, when sasser first came out, the reports were that most of the reboots were caused by bad coding within the sasser worm rather than a diliberate action of the sasser worm. Afaik thats still the case with variants B-E.

Ah, lol.

Damn script kiddies with their shoddy code

secret_squirrel

Actually i was a little wrong.... sasser-A caused reboots from bad coding. B-E were purely malicous.

cournioni

Originally posted by Nick_oliveri
If its a case that sasser has turned off autoprotect, and is therefore malicious, my following statement is null.

Do you know how I can fix it? It's driving me bonkers. And I can't get on the net for long enough to download the patch. :dunno:

LoLth

Go to an internet cafe (or a mates house) and download stinger from

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

and while you are at it do a search for MS04-011 in google, that will bring you to the patch download site. Stinger 700kb, patch 2.6mb (xp) 6mb (2000)

Run stinger on your PC in safemode and then restart.

Apply the patch.

You should be grand.

If you have XP, dont forget to turn off system restore before going into safemode.