New biggie Worm Out, Sasser. - Tech Support Forums

nomaxim · May 3rd, 2004, 08:49 AM

Anyone ran into this one yet?

CNN

BBC

McAfee/ Sasser

McAfee/Sasser.b

Got my A/V update already.

Mickwish · May 3rd, 2004, 08:53 AM

MS has a page dedicated to this one - comes with a online checker to see if you got stung.

Cheers
Mick

nomaxim · May 3rd, 2004, 08:59 AM

Yea, just found the MS link on BBC.

Was wondering why I've gotten three A/V updates since Thur. Kinda guessed something new was afoot.

Mickwish · May 3rd, 2004, 09:01 AM

Doesn't spread by email, though - just spreads on the network. So if ya have a decent firewall, nothing to worry about.

No firewall, though, and....

Cheers
Mick

fotoguy · May 3rd, 2004, 11:22 AM

i have it and im scared. i do a/v scans but it doesnt detect, yet i have all the symptoms of it..

Adam

minduka · May 3rd, 2004, 11:39 AM

i'm afraid that it cannot be detected by most antiviruses, mine didn't detect it either.

Fortunatelly, for those who are using double os or win98 will have no problems (including me :-)).

I was infected by it too, like a week ago and I didn't know the reason, but after I saw the news I just switched to win98 and now i just installed the ms patch and xp's running smoothly again.

I have one question, does the patch fix the other versions of the virus?

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one more thing, is anyone having connection/speed problems with p2p programs? I can't get connected to anyone, may be its cuz of the darn virus... damn those hackers.

fotoguy · May 3rd, 2004, 11:41 AM

i dont think the other versions of windows get infected. just xp 32 bit, 64 bit, and 2000. they said 98, 95 and ME are not effected..

adam

SpookyEddy · May 3rd, 2004, 12:15 PM

Patches were out prior to the appearance of Sasser. I can think of no good reason why anyone should be infected with this, however looking at my firewall logs I can see that this certainly is not the case.

Regards

ed

ArcticFox · May 3rd, 2004, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mickwish
Doesn't spread by email, though - just spreads on the network. So if ya have a decent firewall, nothing to worry about.

No firewall, though, and....

Cheers
Mick

...As I found out less than 30 seconds after I swapped my router for a Netgear switch.

John Prophet · May 3rd, 2004, 12:31 PM

just being behind a router...with no firewall....will that help?

the machien i am on now has w98se so I think i am fine there....but other comps on my network have XP....should I just turn em on and go straight to Windows update site or should I download a patch onto a cd and do it that way (without putting them online?)

I dont turn those machines on very often...so they may go a month between getting updates etc

Usually when I do a fresh build I put on the blaster patch before the comp even goes to windows update...I guess I should do that with the sasser patch also? (hehe...that windows update cd that just went around--it didnt stay current for long did it? lol)