Heads up Computer Worm
Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:57 am
everyone in the us scan your computer for worms. here where i live lots of computers are shuting down.personal, office, even street lights, and light systems. i was at the mall and suddenly all of the lights went out and people where looting like shit.this is serious stuff it shuts your computer off from the inside and disables you to turn it back on.my mom i working overtime now because all the computers at her office are down.
Last edited by Big-D on Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:01 pm
I heard bout it too!Gonna scam my comp now...thank god i didn't download anything!
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:06 pm
oh thank god it only effects windows 2000
Re: Heads up Computer Worm
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:08 pm
Yeah, my whole company pc's WIN 2k platform was affected by this virus! My IT colleagues took around 1/2 day to sort it out.
Granados wrote:everyone in the us scan your computer for worms. here where i live lots of computers are shuting down.personal, office, even street lights, and light systems. i was at the mall and suddenly all of the lights went out and people where looting like shit.this is serious stuff it shuts your computer off from the inside and disables you to turn it back on.my mom i working overtime now because all the computers at here sbc office are down.
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:12 pm
WASHINGTON (CNN) - A computer worm unleashed itself on systems running Microsoft's Windows 2000 Tuesday, causing computer systems to crash across the United States and reportedly as far away as Germany and Asia.
Computers on Capitol Hill in Washington were affected, as were systems at CNN, ABC and The New York Times. The Caterpillar Co. in Peoria, Ill. was also reportedly affected.
Around 5 p.m., computers began crashing at CNN facilities in New York and Atlanta. ABC said their problems began in New York about 1:30 p.m.
A spokesperson for Microsoft told CNN that the company was aware of Tuesday's problems. Microsoft would not estimate how many users had been affected but described the problem as low-impact.
David Perry of Trend Micro said that the attack seems to have been triggered by a new worm, called worm--rbot.ebq. He said that the symptoms of computers repeatedly shutting down and rebooting was consistent with that virus.
Johannes Ullrich, director of the Sans Institute, a network security firm in Jacksonville, Fla., said the outage may also have been caused by the Zotob worm, which was released last weekend.
"It will connect to a control server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them as well," he said.
Several versions of the worm have been released, some as late as Tuesday, he said.
While the worm primarily affects Windows 2000, it can also affect some early versions of Microsoft XP, he said.
Microsoft first announced the vulnerability in Windows 2000's Plug and Play system on Tuesday, Aug. 9.
Virus writers had responded to the vulnerability within days.
Lysa Myers, a virus researcher for the computer security firm McAfee, said the worm exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft plug-and-play application. "How it's spreading is it's looking for machines that are unpatched and running itself," she said.
At any given time, there are thousands of computer worms and viruses in existence. Most are stopped from becoming widespread problems by anti-virus software.
The Internet Storm Center, which monitors network security attacks, on Friday, Aug. 12, upgraded its threat level to yellow ("currently tracking a significant new threat") in response to Zotob but returned it to green ("everything is normal") on Tuesday, Aug. 16, in recognition that the worm was not spreading quickly.
In response to the computer slowdowns Tuesday afternoon, anti-virus software company Symantec reported limited Zotob activity to CNN/Money.
On Monday the company updated the Plug and Play security advisory it had issued last week to account for variations of Zotob, according to InformationWeek.
Microsoft created a site called "What You Should Know About Zotob" that includes actions to be taken to counter the worm. The site is located here.
Computers on Capitol Hill in Washington were affected, as were systems at CNN, ABC and The New York Times. The Caterpillar Co. in Peoria, Ill. was also reportedly affected.
Around 5 p.m., computers began crashing at CNN facilities in New York and Atlanta. ABC said their problems began in New York about 1:30 p.m.
A spokesperson for Microsoft told CNN that the company was aware of Tuesday's problems. Microsoft would not estimate how many users had been affected but described the problem as low-impact.
David Perry of Trend Micro said that the attack seems to have been triggered by a new worm, called worm--rbot.ebq. He said that the symptoms of computers repeatedly shutting down and rebooting was consistent with that virus.
Johannes Ullrich, director of the Sans Institute, a network security firm in Jacksonville, Fla., said the outage may also have been caused by the Zotob worm, which was released last weekend.
"It will connect to a control server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them as well," he said.
Several versions of the worm have been released, some as late as Tuesday, he said.
While the worm primarily affects Windows 2000, it can also affect some early versions of Microsoft XP, he said.
Microsoft first announced the vulnerability in Windows 2000's Plug and Play system on Tuesday, Aug. 9.
Virus writers had responded to the vulnerability within days.
Lysa Myers, a virus researcher for the computer security firm McAfee, said the worm exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft plug-and-play application. "How it's spreading is it's looking for machines that are unpatched and running itself," she said.
At any given time, there are thousands of computer worms and viruses in existence. Most are stopped from becoming widespread problems by anti-virus software.
The Internet Storm Center, which monitors network security attacks, on Friday, Aug. 12, upgraded its threat level to yellow ("currently tracking a significant new threat") in response to Zotob but returned it to green ("everything is normal") on Tuesday, Aug. 16, in recognition that the worm was not spreading quickly.
In response to the computer slowdowns Tuesday afternoon, anti-virus software company Symantec reported limited Zotob activity to CNN/Money.
On Monday the company updated the Plug and Play security advisory it had issued last week to account for variations of Zotob, according to InformationWeek.
Microsoft created a site called "What You Should Know About Zotob" that includes actions to be taken to counter the worm. The site is located here.
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:12 pm
Oh i just found a sollution download the patch from microsoft.com
Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:32 pm
it effects 2000,xp and the new 2003 server editions.
i am in 2000. but i ran my post firewall script which me and my team programmed so our office is safe.......good to be a hacker too to know the mind of the hacker.
anyways its a simple code to turn off even the servers. must be the doing of a 16 year old kid 
i am in 2000. but i ran my post firewall script which me and my team programmed so our office is safe.......good to be a hacker too to know the mind of the hacker.
anyways its a simple code to turn off even the servers. must be the doing of a 16 year old kid
Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:37 am
Everyone reformat your computers.. now.
Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:29 pm
i allready did
Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:00 pm
Congratulations, I can now get on with my life. Thank you so much for posting that.