blast 32 worms..affect any other systems beside win 2k/xp?

[jj]

does the blast 32 worms affects other windows system
beside windows 2k/xp? like windows nt/95/98? because i
dont think there is a patch for 98. if it
doesn't...micro$ux would have alot of explaining to do!

 

[Chris Barnes]

does the blast 32 worms affects other windows system
beside windows 2k/xp? like windows nt/95/98? because i
dont think there is a patch for 98. if it
doesn't...micro$ux would have alot of explaining to do!

Try reading the information on the MS website before "blasting" ms.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

You'll see that 95, 98, & ME are not affected.

 

[Moy]

No. It should only affect Xp and win2K.

 

[jennifer]

hi chris, you seem to know what you are talking about. any
remedies for an already possessed XP computer? I can't
get on the internet for more than 1 minute, but need to
fix it. the MS patch takes almost 10 mins. to download; I
imagine the Symantec patch does also. I NEED my
computer!!! Do you have any ideas?

Jenn

 

[ed]

Hi:
I believe that once you start downloading the patch,
the worm will not be able to run.
That is what happen when I did it.
Ed

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Read here:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Steve

 

[Peter Hutchison]

does the blast 32 worms affects other windows system
beside windows 2k/xp? like windows nt/95/98? because i
dont think there is a patch for 98. if it
doesn't...micro$ux would have alot of explaining to do!

No because 98 is totally different from NT based OSs. They do not run
'Services' such as RPC like NT/2K/XP does, it runs them from win.ini,
Registry Run or Startup folder.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/