Son (in computer industry) warned me of this today. Told me to update my Windows from the Microsoft web site (which I have done).Thihs worm is not transmitted by emails, but by an "open port" whatever that is. Son says although Microsoft say only Windows 2000 and higher are effected, he has found machines running on Windows 98 have also been struck and needed fixing.
Microsoft web site says: quote The Microsoft Product Support Services Security Team is issuing this alert to inform customers about a new worm named W32.Blaster.Worm which is spreading in the wild. This virus is also known as: W32/Lovsan.worm (McAfee), WORM_MSBLAST.A (Trendmicro), Win32.Posa.Worm (Computer Associates). Best practices, such as applying security patch MS03-026 should prevent infection from this worm. Date discovered: August 11, 2003. Customers who had previously applied the security patch MS03-026 are protected. To determine if the virus is present on your machine see the technical details below. IMPACT OF ATTACK: Spread through open RPC ports. Customer's machine gets re-booted or the file "msblast.exe" exists on customer's system. unquote. Hope this helps. Son also mentioned this worm does not destroy files or data, just makes your machine shut down and/or reboot. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
