New Windows Worm on the Loose 622
Dynamoo writes "The Internet Storm Center has issued a Yellow Alert due to the spread of the Sasser worm exploiting Windows 2000 and XP machines through a documented flaw in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) as described in Microsoft Bulletin MS04-011. Initial analysis seems to indicate classic Blaster-style worm behaviour. Right now I'm just getting a probe every 10 minutes or so on my firewall, but this is bound to escalate sharply as the pool of infected machines grows. Of course all good Windows-using Slashdotters visit Windows Update regularly and have a firewall, don't you? More information at Computer Associates, F-Secure, Symantec and McAfee."
ah... (Score:5, Funny)
I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
What is this 'Windows Update' of which you speak?
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
A new worm? Oh, there it is.
ah Nice, more work =) (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks Microsoft.
HAHA (Score:5, Funny)
The add server must be based on Microsoft's new Irony.NET framework!
stay tuned (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
"emerge sync; emerge -uD --fetchonly world; emerge -uD world; etc-update"
except that it requires you to reboot several times and repeatedly interact with it.
Re:ah... (Score:5, Funny)
-- I see your nat box and raise you a proxy server.
Visit Windows Update? (Score:5, Funny)
Dang... (Score:5, Funny)
YA Windows-only software title (Score:5, Funny)
Loose not lose (Score:5, Funny)
This is news? (Score:1, Funny)
Whats new?
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:3, Funny)
Help the poor bastards (Score:5, Funny)
I consider it a public service. Maybe you can even deduct the bandwith for the upload from you tax.
Re:Dang... (Score:5, Funny)
Days like this... (Score:5, Funny)
(ring)
sigh....
Re:ah... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:ah... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:3, Funny)
Windows update freaking out! (Score:5, Funny)
and after some time, a windows pops up with the text:
"The software you are instaling has not passed the Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP. bla bla bla"
"This software will *not be instaled*. Contact your system administrator."
Ok, so i contact myself, and wonders what the hell?!?
I just give M$ a lot of information about the operating system that i'm running... they wrote the frign thing, and even so, they don't know what will run in it, or what will pass their own crap compatibility verification!
but well, that's it... i just click "OK" --the only button-- and see the same windows appears 3 times more... and blissfuly keep my ignorance of what's going on with the instalation.
You must be an american (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ah... (Score:1, Funny)
Well done, submitter! (Score:5, Funny)
How refreshing. A Slashdot article about a worm exploiting Windows, without the usual childish jibes. Or FUD. Or spelling mistakes. Well done, Dynamoo!
Of course, then came the comments... :-)
I was wondering... (Score:5, Funny)
Linux_Zealot says : 5 Insightful - I am using Linux now !
M$_wizard : 5 Interesting - Worms always appear after a security notice from Microsoft Knowledge Base ; so, openness is bad !
security_Teacher : 5 Insightful - Of course, no one should run anything as root but cricital administration tasks, and a firewall is essential.
n00b : -1 Troll - Windows Sucks !!!
Well... That's just a little... repetitive
Could you try to find out? (Score:4, Funny)
Working at PC Club (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Full text, in case of slashdotting:
Re:Windows update freaking out! (Score:4, Funny)
"That action can not be performed. Please contact your system administrator."
I always felt like and idiot talking to myself...
Re:ah... (Score:5, Funny)
LK
Re:ah... (Score:1, Funny)
If you wonder what a virus is : (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Those monopolistic bastards.
Re:ah... (Score:3, Funny)
Ha. I have a linux laptop behind a linux iptables NAT box behind another linux iptables NAT box. The NAT boxes are running two different distributions. Beat that if you can.
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
yum --ask-lots-of-useless-questions=yes \
--reboot-for-no-apparent-reason=alot \
--resolve-dependencies-without-my-help=no \
update
Re:ah... (Score:3, Funny)
You are lucky. I have to use a box of gravel for a firewall.
bwhahaha ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Removal Instructions [mirrors] (Score:5, Funny)
http://fedora.redhat.com [redhat.com]
http://www.gentoo.org [gentoo.org]
http://www.debian.org [debian.org]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com [linux-mandrake.com]
http://www.slackware.com [slackware.com]
Obligatory quote from Linux/*BSD/Mac users (Score:5, Funny)
Nelson, various Simpsons episodes
Re:already feeling it on college campuses (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ah... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:3, Funny)
Windows - Where do you want to go today?
Linux - Where do you want to go tomorrow?
BSD - Are you guys coming or what?
Re:HAHA (Score:5, Funny)
And that, your honour, concludes my evidence showing why the Internet is such an insecure mess.
killing IE (Score:4, Funny)
classic behaviour? (Score:1, Funny)
This made me think of a quote from "Broken Arrow" [imdb.com], when Giles Prentice (Frank Whaley) is told there is a "broken arrow", he says,
"I don't know what's scarier - losing nuclear weapons or that it happens so often that we have a name for it."
Re:ah... (Score:4, Funny)
You could be doing SO much more with that much machine -- I mean....It's a PENTIUM 90!! Don't you realize how much power you have right there? It's insanity!
Re:ah... (Score:4, Funny)
My firewall is literally a burning wall, DDOS me and I get a large dinner
Well yeah.... (Score:2, Funny)
Otherwise it would be called "Microsoft Walls"
Re:ah... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ah... (Score:5, Funny)
I have DOS - which doesn't listen to anything unless you tell it to.
Beat that.
(Well, I'm fibbing, I actually run Windows 2000, Windows XP and Red Hat 7.3. But I remember when I used to tell clients at BOFA that modem security was not an issue with DOS since if you weren't running XTalk or something, DOS could care less if the modem was on. Of course, this meant porn took a lot longer to download...)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:5, Funny)
New Windows Worm on the Loose (Score:3, Funny)
What, it's been a week already?
goodbye windows update (Score:5, Funny)
Using Symantec AV, I LiveUpdate'd signatures, only to find that it decared System32/w32sup.exe as a trojan and quarantined it.
Heh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ah... (Score:3, Funny)
It does what? (Score:1, Funny)
The worm typically shuts down the computer then automatically re-boots it, repeating the procedure several times. Hyppoenen said computers behind a firewall should be spared from the attack.
And how is this different than a typical Windows install?
Re:Linux is vunerable too (The anti-anti-windows F (Score:1, Funny)
Apperently your sarcasm detector is set on "low".
(ps. it was a joke)
Sasser (Score:2, Funny)
Windows' House
A worm appears. Windows is surprised.
Enter Worm
Windows (moronically): duh hello? What are you doing in here?
Worm (aloof): Hey windows, how's it goin? Just wonderin' if I could, ya know, come on in for a bit. I know you don't really know me and all, but I just kinda found you here..
Windows: duh you look like an old friend.. what's his name, Bob.. Blast.. something or other. Ok since you're already here, it's not much, but there's a nice breeze that blows through.
Worm: Can I leave some of my stuff here?
Windows: Ok by me, there's a whole bunch of stuff here, people come by all the time picking stuff up, dropping it off. (helpfully) Let me take that for you.
Worm: Nice! Ummm, while I'm here, I have some code, and I just need a bit... err.. executed. Is that ok?
Windows (wary): Well... I don't know you that well.
Worm: C'mon, please? I'm friends with that guy in, uh, the service department, obviously I couldn't get in if he didn't let me in.
Windows (relieved): Oh him! Oh yeah, he's friends with a lot of people. Ok, I'll execute the code... there ya go all done.
Worm: Excellent. Ok, gotta go.
Enter Zone Alarm
Zone Alarm (alarmed): What's all this then? Who's this guy? Where is he trying to go? Why wasn't I alerted?!
Windows: Oh, he's just... a guy.. he came in for a bit.
Zone Alarm: How did he get in??
Windows (frustrated): Through the service entrance, I told you I got a lot of things going through there and don't want you bothering me about it all the time. The last time you blocked off the service entrance noone could get through.
Zone Alarm: Well don't let him out...
Exuent Worm
Zone Alarm:
Windows (ashamed): Out the service entrance.
Zone Alarm: That's it I quit.
Exuent Zone Alarm
THE END
Re:I Use X Windows (Score:2, Funny)