Windows 2K worm

by **Ldsmith104** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:51 pm

Anyone else get hit by this? My computer just started rebooting over and over, finaly it went dead. Going to move the drives to good machine and scan them.

by Conscious* » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:22 pm

It affected every 2000 machine in America according to CNN.

by Conscious* » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:23 pm

I got this from CNN this morning.

CNN Breaking News
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-- A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software across the United States.

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by **Evan** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:04 pm

Originally posted by Conscious*
It affected every 2000 machine in America according to CNN.

Impossible to affect EVERY Windows 2000 machine.

by **Ldsmith104** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:19 pm

well maybe every machine that wasn't behind a firewall the machine infected was the DMZ host on my network. I will be taking additional measures to keep this from happening again, even though that may be impossible as long as I still use M$

by **SHWoff** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:38 pm

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11281

patch, patch, patch

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/899588.mspx

by **Evan** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:23 am

People shouldn't be using 2000 anyway. Get Windows XP Pro.

by Conscious* » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:44 am

Originally posted by Evan
Impossible to affect EVERY Windows 2000 machine.

I was just relaying CNN's message, of course any computer not connected to the internet wouldn't get it, and quite a few that are would get by....but quite a lot of computers apparently got hit.

by **tek** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:47 am

All our 2k servers in our production and test bed environments for my work were not affected.

( *THANK GOD* ) :rotflmao:

by **Ldsmith104** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:49 am

Originally posted by Evan
People shouldn't be using 2000 anyway. Get Windows XP Pro.

Have ex pro on my laptop, still prefer 2000

by **Ldsmith104** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:53 am

Originally posted by SHWoff
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11281

patch, patch, patch

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/899588.mspx

Hell I can't get it to boot, much less install a patch:help:

by **Evan** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:09 am

Originally posted by Conscious*
I was just relaying CNN's message, of course any computer not connected to the internet wouldn't get it, and quite a few that are would get by....but quite a lot of computers apparently got hit.

According to many reports, the bug really hasn't spread all that much. Other worms before it have done more damage and spread to more PC's.

by **Namloot** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:08 am

Glad I'm running XP Pro

by **JimmyTango** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:19 am

Originally posted by Evan
People shouldn't be using 2000 anyway. Get Windows XP Pro.

Many people use 2000 for work, like I do. We have three machines running 2000.

by **deathBOB** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:46 am

What they dont tell you is that the bug was released and spread by microsoft to force people to upgrade...

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