- Got a message from Knology Support about the worm...
- Posted by Larry on August 13th, 2003
This message arrived today concerning the Blaster worm and what
Knology has done to block it from their broadband customers.....
Hope you guys connected to the big elephants have similar service from
your ISP......
I upgraded my system to Windows 98SE which is immune, it seems....(c;
Thank you, Knology....
Larry
Message follows......
A vulnerability in certain Microsoft Windows operating systems has
been identified which may greatly affect your computer's security and
performance. This threat has been identified as the W32 Blaster Worm
or LovSan. While Knology took immediate measures to block the worm's
spread on our network, if you are a user of Windows XP, Windows 2000,
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows Server 2003, you should use the link below
and follow the instructions on the page to ensure your system was not
affected.
http://support.knology.net/blaster.cfm
Technical Note:
The specific action we took at the network level was to block the
ports the worm uses to transmit itself. The ports affected are: 135,
139, 444 and 445. If you are using an application that utilizes these
ports, it will be affected by this action. These ports will remain
blocked for such a time as we feel it's necessary to protect you, our
customers.
Knology Network Operations
Larry
Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.
- Posted by Kimberly Murphy-Smith on August 13th, 2003
Clawing their way to the top of the pile of posts, nospam@home.com
(Larry) wrote:
I'm telling you, I've NEVER been so happy I didn't take the XP plunge
as I was today when I saw all the articles about businesses/etc. being
knocked offline by this mess.
Kimberly Murphy-Smith -- kamurphy@ix.netcom.com
http://members.aol.com/kimmurphy/
Kimberly's Barbie Collection:
http://members.aol.com/kimmurphy/barbies.html
- Posted by none on August 13th, 2003
Larry wrote:
That's a big minus..
You would definitely not feel the same way if you
already applied the security patches, ....last month that is;
and actually use apps that utilize any of the affected ports
(135, 139, 444, 445).
- Posted by John Navas on August 13th, 2003
[POSTED TO comp.dcom.modems.cable - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
In <da9jjv49inqv9v2djq2s26mgigjqfo7c9j@4ax.com> on Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:42:43
-0400, Kimberly Murphy-Smith <kamurphy@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
With service packs and patches applied, Windows XP is fine. It's only a
problem when people don't do that, just *any* other OS.
--
Best regards,
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE: <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>
- Posted by Lars M. Hansen on August 13th, 2003
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:48:37 -0500, BR spoketh
If so, it must be your regional Comcast... I'm getting 200-300 hits a
day on my firewall.
Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)
"You're an angel with your wings broken"
- Posted by Larry on August 13th, 2003
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:42:43 -0400, Kimberly Murphy-Smith
<kamurphy@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
software wouldn't run on XP, what with Billy trying to make everyone
buy new software to support his business partners.
98SE is a mature and fairly great-working product, now. Mine hasn't
crashed or been rebooted in 2 months and it's in heavy use 24/7, even
with the Cerberus FTP server on it.
Larry
Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.
