What is a Blaster worm?

Question

What is a blaster worm, is it much like a regular virus?

is it possible to have a blaster worm in Windows XP?

the best answer gets 10 points.

Answer 1

It's a worm on your computer; it propagates differently than other viruses, and can be more damaging in some ways.  It's definitely possible to have one in XP.  I'd suggest running an anti-virus sweep on your computer, preferably from F-Secure or ETrust - not a @ss program like Norton or MacAfee.

Answer 2

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AjB4...

Answer 3

Blaster worm will give you a pop up windows saying computer will shut down in like 45 seconds. signed NT Authority. Been out for a couple years and yes, it hits XP. Simple to get rid of. Click on "Download Removal Tool" in upper left of this page.

http://www.symantec.com/security_respons...

Answer 4

The Blaster Worm (also known as Lovsan or Lovesan) was a computer worm that spread on computers running the Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP and Windows 2000, during August 2003.

The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003. Filtering by ISPs and widespread publicity about the worm curbed the spread of Blaster.

On August 29, 2003, Jeffrey Lee Parson, an 18-year-old from Hopkins, Minnesota was arrested for creating the B variant of the Blaster worm; he admitted responsibility and was sentenced to an 18-month prison term in January 2005.

Effects

The worm was programmed to start a SYN flood on August 15, 2003 against port 80 of windowsupdate.com, thereby creating a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against the site. The damage to Microsoft was minimal as the site targeted was windowsupdate.com instead of windowsupdate.microsoft.com to which it was redirected. Microsoft temporarily shut down the targeted site to minimize potential effects from the worm.

The worm spread by exploiting a buffer overflow in the DCOM RPC service on the affected operating systems, for which a patch had been released one month earlier in MS03-026 and later in MS03-039.

The worm contains two messages hidden in strings. The first:

    I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!

is why the worm is sometimes called the Lovesan worm. The second:

    billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money

    and fix your software!!

is a message to Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and the target of the worm

Side effects

Although the worm can only spread on systems running Windows 2000 or Windows XP (32 bit) it can cause instability in the RPC service on systems running Windows NT, Windows XP (64 bit), and Windows Server 2003. In particular, the worm does not spread in Windows Server 2003 because it was compiled with the /GS switch, which detected the buffer overflow and shut the RPCSS process down. [1] If the worm detects a connection to the Internet (regardless of dial-up or broadband), this can even lead to the system becoming so unstable that it displays the following message and then restarts (usually after 60 seconds):

This was the first indication many users had an infection; it often occurred a few minutes after every startup on compromised machines. A simple resolution to stop countdown is to run "shutdown -a" command.

Systems Affected: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Answer 5

A Windows update (patch) was issued in 2003 that makes XP immune to Blaster.

As long as you keep your XP fully updated, there is no way that your computer could be infected by Blaster / Lovesan.

A Windows XP computer that has been updated to Service Pack 2 (SP2) or SP3 is OK. Earlier versions can still be compromised.

Answer 6

scan your computer cause if you mess with it more viruses will come out