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MS05-039 Worm in the Wild

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the brace-for-impact dept.

An anonymous reader noted that SANS is reporting that the MS05-039 worm is in the wild. It has been named Zotob.A. Not a lot of information on this one yet except that it's trying to FTP files from a subnet.

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  1. Re:miscategorised by rel4x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because it would be horribly redundant?

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  2. Re:ClamAV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its like my Network guys always say..

    The early revision always gets the worm! //Ok, I'm sorry about that. I apologize.

  3. Re:While drives software companies to do this... by SoloFlyer2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    We could tell them to write it in java instead of C/Assembly, that way it will propagate slower as the files will be larger, the code will use more memory and there will be more processing overhead... :)

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  4. Re:crappy summary by caluml · · Score: 2, Funny
    what operating system this effects

    Affects. What operating system this affects.

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  5. Re:no subject really by JamesTRexx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which is why we're at this moment here at work patching all servers manually. Good thing it also means a sunday bonus. :-)

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  6. Re: :) by tveidt · · Score: 2, Funny

    > What a crappy summary

    Get a browser with support for hyperlinks. Cool stuff.

  7. Re:What drives people to do this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    All it takes is one bad apple...


    Erm...I think you're mistaken. It's one bad Windows. WINDOWS.

  8. Re:Must everything be handed to you? by cbreaker · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a digest of the worm, not the vulnerability. Why do you need everything explained in every article? It's not like Microsoft vulnerability details are hard to find, so I don't see why he'd need to explain it all over again.

    So next time it should read like this to make you happy:

    This worm (a computer program that spreads from computer to computer) infects Windows (an operating system from Microsoft (an operating system is the software that allows access to the hardware and provides an environment for other software to run)) systems due to the vulnerability listed in MS05-039 (Vulnerability in Plug and Play Could Allow Remote Code Execution and Elevation of Privilege (899588)) which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin /MS05-039.mspx.

    PC's (Personal Computers) without this patch (a software update that fixes a problem or provides an enhancement) should download (retrieving data from another computer) and install this software ASAP (As Soon As Possible.)

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  9. Re:What drives people to do this... by thrillseeker · · Score: 4, Funny
    Personally my hobbies include martial arts and power lifting. Another good systems guy I know is an expert martial artist. I say we get five minutes locked in a small concrete room with Mr. Worm Creator and see how much fucking fun he has while he's getting an ass beating.

    Having some difficulties understanding the self-control aspects of the martial arts, are you?

  10. Re:miscategorised by discogravy · · Score: 2, Funny

    don't worry, the repost will be.

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