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Sasser virus... grrrrrrrrr

robbydadrummer	Date: May 10, 2004 @ 4:03 PM This bastard got me... right through my Norton A/V too! I ended up reformatting Saturday. If you don't know, Sasser does NOT use email to spread, so anyone can get it if they are not protected. It is known to get past both Norton and McAffee Anti-Virus programs. If you are using these, I suggest checking your computer with Panda's free online active scan. This is how I found it. Go to the Panda site: http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/
robbydadrummer	Date: May 10, 2004 @ 4:33 PM bump This is important enough for people to see...
Etheracide	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 7:49 AM hump This is important enough for people to do. Sorry, I don't know why I am being an 'ass' today. I would lighten things up a bit and make some kind of humorful joke about having developed Sasser but considering that there are probably always FEDS here trying to catch all of you digital music pirates, they catch me quickly and I'd be sent to prison even when I haven't been infected with it, let alone developed it. Maybe I'll go post something like that on a Spice Girls message board...they'd be too embarrassed for anyone to know that they were looking at the message boards to bust me for posting a fabricated story such as that. But in all seriousness...thanks Robby for the link. Just in case I ever need it.
Svensta	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 8:37 AM Make sure your av online free scans come from a reputable company, you nevah know. Pandasoft is the real deal, though, so no fretting on that account. I was reading up on Sasser and apparently it was one of those HTML webscript email variants, which doesn't rely on you taking an action on an email to launch it. Like Robby said, it's DAMN nasty stuff. Also, Norton has patched for Sasser, and three main variants... although there are DOZENS of variants in the wild now, so be careful still. Oh and ether, they already cracked the kid responsible. Why do hax0rs feel the need to go into irc chatrooms and brag all the time? This one was some genius 18 year old in Germany who wanted to drum up more business for his mum's computer repair start-up. I think it might have worked. Of course, maybe his mum turned him in and bagged the quarter-million in bounty from Microsoft.
RyanS	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 9:09 AM What really irks me is that all this virus/worm stuff has been mentioned all over the media, but people still doesn't do anything to protect their own machines. This is why all this crap spreads like wildfire. With a decent firewall, hardware or otherwise, a good anti-virus, and some common sense, the web will be a lot more enjoyable. I'm just tired of seeing 400k+ logs from my router. The good thing is that my ISP is actually doing something about it. I can report any blocked attempts to abuse, and not only do I get the automated response, I no longer see that IP in my logs a few days later. Of course this just goes for the IPs that are from my own ISP. I've sent letters to other ISP's abuse dept. and sometimes I get the auto-response, most of the time, I get jack shit. Hell, I'm still one of these type of people that should require everyone to get educated before they even dialup/connect to the net. I could really care less if someone elses' machine gets infected, but when it starts eating up bandwidth on my end, it's gotta stop!
RyanS	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 9:12 AM Sorry for the little bitch-fest above, just getting frustrated
robbydadrummer	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 10:05 PM don't worry about the rant. i was surprised i got hit because i update norton daily. sneaky bastard, this sasser virus is. there are copycat versions that are leaking out also now, so do be careful. i just added panda platinum a/v which includes the firewall in addition to norton. of course, the damage was done. fortunately, i save all my files on the d drive anyways. i just hate the time it takes to reinstall everything and set it up the way i like...
RyanS	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 10:32 PM That's a good idea to put your saveable stuff on a different drive or partition, especially in situations like this. That's what I've done for many many years, and makes re-installing much easier when needed. And as you found out, having just an anti-virus won't fix this. It'll remove it, but will not prevent it from happening again. Best way is to firewall, which you seemed to just added. IMHO, three things that every computer connected to the internet should have: Anti-virus, Firewall, and Common Sense.
woodhead	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 10:54 PM Get educated is right, can you believe that on the local news last nite they had a feature about the "new threat on the internet" Spy ware, I was thinking geez spy ware you gotta be kidding me, but I guess a lot of ppl just dont know, and never got educated about all the crap on the net? Can you believe that IMHO, three things that every computer connected to the internet should have: Anti-virus, Firewall, and Common Sense. Also a router, wouldn't surf wiht out mine now
RyanS	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 11:02 PM Routers are great if you have broadband, but some people are forced to be in the dark ages with dialup. I was one of those until late January '04, now I my cable! Although they actually do make routers that can hook up to external serial dialup modems, the price isn't feasable. The one I seen was well over $200/US. That's a chunch of change. So far I'm happy with my Linksys BEFSX41 Router. Since buying this router, I've had absolutley no intrusions that have been logged on my Zone Alarm. Beats the hell out of that old Linksys/NE NR041 I had!
RyanS	Date: May 11, 2004 @ 11:04 PM And since you mentioned spyware, a spyware removal tool is pretty handy to have. Rarely do I ever get spyware anymore, since I've been educated, and if I do, it's from forgetting to set IE to block all 3rd-party cookies. Then again, I rarely use IE anymore. It's either Firefox or Mozilla, and the Adblock extension
woodhead	Date: May 12, 2004 @ 12:32 AM cable is the way to go, oh yea, broad band rules, I can not see myself going back to dial up, but then once again when I got broad band I had my hard line turned off, no need for it
robbydadrummer	Date: May 12, 2004 @ 5:04 AM dial-up? what's that? i guess i've been spoiled too long with my cable...
Svensta	Date: May 12, 2004 @ 7:59 AM "three things that every computer connected to the internet should have: Anti-virus, Firewall, and Common Sense" Well, i would settle for common sense. And having it everywhere, not just the internet. But of course, I dream. Moronity is legion. Don't read your logs. Blocked is blocked. Move on, nothing to see here

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