Sasser Worm is on the prowl

[BlackDiamondJr]

This new worm started spreading Friday night.

Make sure that you are running a firewall.
Make sure that you do your Windows updates (Critical).
Make sure your anti-virus application has the latest updates.

Sasser worm begins to spread (http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5203764.html?tag=nefd.top)

What You Should Know About the Sasser Worm (http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp)

[WARP MAN]

Thanks for this. I had this problem, even with my Firewall on. I installed the Windows Update and it it has stopped it from turning off my pc.

However, I still get at startup LSASS.exe (export version) has performed an error, how can I fix this? I click dont send to Microsoft and everything is then fine, but annoying and worrying nonetheless.

[PhilEnfield]

This may help :
http://64.4.43.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=8f121474160fcd7d7b03b95897df8b5a&lat=1083577898&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etrendmicro%2ecom%2f vinfo%2fvirusencyclo%2fdefault5%2easp%3fVName%3dWO RM_SASSER%2eB

[BlackDiamondJr]

Symantec has a removal tool as well as manual removal instruction........
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.b.worm.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.removal.tool.html

[gsand]

been there-had that-system crashed-killed the worm

fun times.

[kaine]

Had this at the weekend. Sorted it out with the manual removal instructions and applied the microsoft security patch and now seems fine.

[hara-kiri]

had it at work yesterday all the systems were down for the whole day, so sat around doing crosswords!

Today systems worked in the morning but now gone down again, which is strange but 2hrs later no news about them coming back up, at least today can access the net!

[chimpuk]

luckily not encountered this yet

actually i manage to miss all these worms and viruses...all i have on is XP's built in firewall, and AVG free anti virus (always updated), never a problem

never even got the blaster worm when it was around

am I just lucky?

[Ogs]

if u avoided the blaster then yes you are very lucky


do you get any viruses? does avg pick any up cus thats a bit weird having no viri when i get them daily

[mbgm8rjh]

i haven't had a virus for about a year, i run winXP with firewall enabled, and also zonealarm, my virus software is norton. have to keep virus definitions up to date and also keep on top of the windows updates