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Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can't-hold-her-together-any-longer-captain dept.

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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  1. First FailIt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I Fail It I Fail It FuGG fUkk FuCC

  2. Taco responds re: editor moderation abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do Editors Moderate?
    The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them. Our moderations represent about 3% of all moderation, and according to Meta Moderation, the fairness of these moderations are either statistically indistinguishable from non-admin users, or substantially better. The raw numbers are: 95.1% of non-admin upmods are fair, and 94.7% of admin upmods are fair. 79.1% of non-admin downmods are fair, and 83.6% of admin downmods are fair.

    The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.

    You can argue that allowing admins unlimited moderation is somehow inherently unfair, but one of the goals of Slashdot is to produce readable content for a variety of readers with a variety of reading habits. I believe this process improves discussions for the vast majority of Slashdot Readers, so it will stay this way. [ If you don't like it, well, I don't care. This is my sandbox, those are my rules, and until someone takes this site away from me, what you see is, ultimately, what I want you to see. - ed.]

    Answered by: CmdrTaco Last Modified: 4/12/03

    1. Re:Taco responds re: editor moderation abuse by DemoLiter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      ... and according to Meta Moderation, the fairness of these moderations are either statistically indistinguishable from non-admin users, or substantially better.

      How can fairness of a rather small group of moderating reades be better than fairness of the whole group?

      Doesn't it sound like "according to the result of public polls, the decisions of the government are more democratic than average public opinion"

  3. first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whee!

    1. Re:first post! by The+Ayatrollah · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      NO! YOU FAIL IT!

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  4. in russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia Win32 worm rise YOU!

  5. Nice pouncepost! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You got this all teed-up in advance, ready to jump and grab that karma. You're a go-getter, I can tell. Well done. Your up-mods are certainly well-deserved! I like how you're putting that subscription money to good use!

    Slashdot: Subscribe, and you too can be a karma whore!

  6. Re:Wrong link by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot has been assimilated, seriously.

  7. Holy smokes this thing sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I got it on two of my machines last night.

    Both were win2k, and both were up-to-date on patches. The win2k patches from microsoft don't stop it. To protect your win2k system, you need to follow these instructions.

    Good luck.

  8. bit slowing your stuff down... by Yaa+101 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I downloaded and updated the patch, but it slowed my puter so much that i decided to take it off again and close the whole RPC service instead...

  9. Re:The Rise by insomnic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I actually watched T3 yesterday... Coincidence??

  10. Honest question... by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will this update run under Wine?

  11. stock markup fraud on the rise again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    we DOWt any of y'alls' 'monIE' is going to increase in 'value' 15-20% today. & why would it?

    the reason robbIE's is? perhaps the astounding sucksass of va lairIE's patentdead PostBlock(tm) devise, & /or the saykrud kode collection of the SourceForgerIE(tm)?

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=t

    way to goo. no eXPlanation required.

  12. Re:shutdown /a by TCM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bad day. Move along PLZ K THX.

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