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Next-Gen Windows Worms Will Be Smarter | |
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| Time: 04:32 EST/09:32 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Despite infecting tens of thousands of computers worldwide, the recent W32.Blaster worm is poorly written and inefficient, blunting its impact, according to security experts. However, future versions of the worm could correct Blaster's flaws and spread much more quickly, resulting in service outages on infected networks and causing far greater harm to businesses and individual users on the Internet, experts warn. Blaster, which is also known as the MSBlast, the Lovsan Worm, and the DCOM Worm, surfaced on Monday and quickly spread to computers worldwide by exploiting a known security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The worm targets a Windows component for handling Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol traffic called the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface. By Tuesday morning, it had spread to more than 30,000 systems, according to Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer of the SANS Internet Storm Center. | ||
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| #1 By 8241 (205.189.47.238) at 8/14/2003 8:55:02 AM |
| It is unfortunate, but I STILL get on average 15 Code Red attacks a day (by attack, I mean to say a one line entry in my w3svc log, ergo 15 lines, usually 2 unique IPs). Sometimes to amuse myself I'll connect to \\IP\c$ and see what's on the person's drives :-) |
| #2 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 8/14/2003 11:52:20 AM |
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Even some large corporations are stupid.
I used to contract for a certain unnamed Fortune 500 company and they had code red swarming their INTERNAL network. People wouldn't patch their desktops and there was no comprehensive enterprise-wide patching system. (No SUS server, etc). If you dook a freshly-rebaked Win2K box and plugged it into the network, it was an average of 5 minutes before you were a new Code-Red node. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.105) at 8/14/2003 1:06:12 PM |
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Blaster is quicker than that !
Tuesday I was installing XP on a freshly formatted drive, and it never even finished installing before it was hit. As soon as Windows added the NIC drivers and brought it online, it was instantly hit. I now do all imaging before the network is plugged in. TL |
| #4 By 1642 (66.208.6.173) at 8/14/2003 5:00:35 PM |
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Since there are still a number of people with dial up connections, and whatnot, I think it may be to Micorsoft's benefit to put service packs on CDs and push them out to end users (AOL-style if you will). Sure, this wouldn't get every last patch, but at least if it was easily availble to people they could install it, and have that many less patches to worry about having to download on their own.
And while I am on the topic, I think it is about time for Microsoft to get XP SP2 out the door, or do a security roll-up pack of some sort. There are over 30 MB of critical updates post-SP1. I could easily burn it to CD and push it out to folks I know who are still on dial up, but having to deal with each of the post-service pack patches seperately is a pain. |
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