Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise

EvilNight writes "You know you've got it when a 60 second shutdown timer pops up on your screen. The virus uses the RPC vulnerability. It looks like it's reaching critical mass today. Luckily, it's an easy one to stop: Download this security update. Once you've installed that patch, go here and download the removal tool." Update: 08/12 19:19 GMT by M : Security bulletin URL corrected.

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Coincidence

[ctid]

A few minutes ago (about 14:45 my time), I tried this:

grep "DPT=13[5-9]" messages | grep -c "Aug 12"
643

Then I tried this:

grep "DPT=13[5-9]" messages | grep -c "Aug 11"
643


So it took less than 15 hours to reach yesterday's 24-hour total. Doesn't look too good. I suspect that fixing this will prove to be way beyond the abilities of a huge proportion of home users of Windows. Anyone who says that "Linux isn't ready for your Grandma" or whatever, should be forced to do community service for a week fixing this crap.