There appear to be patches available for everything from W2K up.
Look for KB899588.
Ken Lawrence <<mailto:lawrenk@wes.army.mil>>
HNS Consultants
Unix System Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie Willett [mailto:Eddie.Willett@richmond.ppdi.com]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:36 PM
To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Virus Outbreak Attacking MS05-039
I have read that this virus can be spread on any windows os but only
affects 2000, 2003??, xp?? I have gotten conflicting reports about the
last. What is the truth to this. Does anyone know?
Eddie
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls@utdallas.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:17 PM
To: Meni Milstein; 'Mike'
Cc: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Virus Outbreak Attacking MS05-039
--On Monday, August 15, 2005 20:00:12 +0200 Meni Milstein
<meni@menimilstein.com> wrote:
As far as I know, if you are firewalled correctly and have your 445
tcp
port shut to the outside - this thing should NOT be able to get in.
Am I wrong?
This is almost word for word what people said about Slammer. Then it
got
in....
It only takes one "rogue" machine, that gets infected while *outside*
your
network, to connect to your network, and you're toast. Apply the
patches
ASAP and make sure you have sensible protections in place. Then prepare
to
quickly cut off any machines that show indications of being infected.
Otherwise you're just asking for trouble.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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