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New MSBlast variant plugs hole

By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 18, 2003, 11:49 AM PT

A variant of MSBlast spread on Monday, but the new worm has an odd twist: 
It applies a patch for the vulnerability that it and other MSBlast worms 
use to infect Windows systems.

The new worm, dubbed W32.Welchia, W32/Nachi and Worm_MSBlast.D, appears to 
properly download the patch for both Windows 2000 and Windows XP from 
Microsoft's Web site. Moreover, the variant will delete itself the first 
time an infected computer starts up in 2004. 

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