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Uggh Warning virus | 7 comments (7 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Uggh Warning virus (none / 0) (#3)
by squack15 on Tue May 11, 2004 at 04:23:37 PM PST

its actually the sasser.b virus. The origional came out around the time of the blaster wurm. It will cause computer system failures by randomly deleting files...it kinda sucks. Luckily by downloading windows critical updates, you will nail it. Good luck with all that.
P.S. It reaked havoc on our dorm. I think its safe to say 95% of the dorm got it. Its a spreader.

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Re: Uggh Warning virus (none / 0) (#4)
by Geo3383 on Wed May 12, 2004 at 12:42:04 PM PST

Don't take this the wrong way,

But Squack your wrong. nice and simple w32.sasser.worm the first version of the sasser family was Discovered by symantec [norton]
on April 30th 2004 where as w32.blaster.worm was discovered all the way back around august of 2003 !
we are talking like 8 months ! The security vulnerblity that allows sasser to execute it's self on your system was not even released until april 12th 2004. Sasser does not delete any files on your computer either it more or less just replicates degrades system preformance and causes LSASS to crash

keeping your windows and virus defs up-to-date as well as a properly configured firewall is about the only way to keep yourself protected.

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Re: Uggh Warning virus (none / 0) (#5)
by miskairal on Thu May 13, 2004 at 01:57:07 AM PST

Hey Geo - isn't there a "Sasser a" and a "Sasser b"?

I can't believe how many big companies go down to these worms - they pay people big money to secure their systems. The whole railway system was out in one Australian state!

I was driving home with my new pc (and the beginings of that bad flu) when I heard on the news about the blaster worm. I was lucky enough not to get it in the time it took me to download the windows update. I now save all those updates to CD so I can get my pc secure BEFORE I log onto the net if I ever need to format and start again.

miskairal

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Re: Uggh Warning virus (none / 0) (#6)
by Geo3383 on Thu May 13, 2004 at 03:31:59 AM PST

That's a very good practice miskairal i wish i knew more people who did that !!!

And as of may 11th there is
Sasser.a,b,c,d,e,f, and gen each is a variant of the first and each different version has minor changes the w32.sasser.gen is a generic identifier for the sasser family of virus's if you get a hit on a file as sasser.gen and you have up-to-date virus definitions it is very likely you have been infected with a *new* version of the virus. with the sasser virus the most notable change in each version is a change in the mutax [the registry identifier] and some minor changes in the way the virus finds other potential host computers [to improve performance].

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Re: Uggh Warning virus (none / 0) (#7)
by miskairal on Sat May 15, 2004 at 01:44:23 AM PST

Well right now I won't catch anything because I can't stay connected to the net long enough due to a problem with our phone line :(

I'm going through guppylog withdrawal!!!!!

Crikey that's a lot of variants. I can't get the latest antivirus update but I have a firewall always on and the windows updates were up to date last time I had long enough to check the site :)
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