Most everyone has it but me

[Wesley]

How does someone get infected with the blaster worm.
Most of my friends got it but i didnt. Does it have
something to do with the fact that im using a dial-up
connection.

I DONT need a solution

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If you have a dialup connection and no firewall, and haven't patched your
computer, you've just been lucky so far. Patch, update AV, and get a
software firewall like www.sygate.com

 

[Jim Macklin]

No, you must have installed the updates a month ago. If you
have not, as soon as you can get into Windows Update or
Help&Support and install the Blaster patch.

Run your firewall, even on dial-up.

Run an up to date anti-virus, McAfee updated twice already
this week.


| How does someone get infected with the blaster worm.
| Most of my friends got it but i didnt. Does it have
| something to do with the fact that im using a dial-up
| connection.
|
| I DONT need a solution

 

[John C. Harris, MPA]

Sounds like you were more dilegent in keeping up with updates and virus
definaitions then your friends were. Good job!

 

[John Liebson]

How does someone get infected with the blaster worm.
Most of my friends got it but i didnt. Does it have
something to do with the fact that im using a dial-up
connection.

I DONT need a solution

Absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the method that anyone uses to
connect to the internet, other than those few who still use string and
tin cans!

 

[L. A. Powell]

Congratulations. Apparently you and I are among the few, the proud, the
diligent. I'm running XP Home with Zone Alarm firewall on a cable modem,
and with all critical updates. Amazing the numbers of users who are
being infected when it was so needless.

 

[Tim Slattery]

How does someone get infected with the blaster worm.
Most of my friends got it but i didnt. Does it have
something to do with the fact that im using a dial-up
connection.

Three things must exist in order for your system to get infected.

First, you must be running one of the NT line of operating systems:
WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, or Win2003. The Win9x systems are not
vulnerable to this worm.

Second, you must not have a firewall - or anything else - blocking
port 135. The worm propagates by sending RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
messages to random IP addresses on port 135.

Third, you must not have installed the patch that Microsoft released
for this vulnerability last month. That patch is available at
http://microsoft.com/downloads/deta...6C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en
(for 32-bit Windows XP systems.)

If *any* of these things are *not* true, you are not vulnerable. All
three items must be true in order for you to be infected.

 

[kanedmamma]

Am I right in thinking that if you log on internet as a user in XP instead
of administrator that hackers do not have the access to attack in this kind
of way as you do not have administrative rights to execute these sorts of
procedures - I always log on for this reason. The only downside to this is
that you have to remember to log on as administrator on a regular basis to
download virus updates and microsoft updates.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

That's not surefire - depends on the virus/hack. The only solution is
patches patches firewall antivirus more patches av update etc...

 

[Maureen Goldman]

It's early days...

 

[I'm Probably Not Here]

It's early days...

"They are early days would perhaps be better grammar," he wrote in a daze.