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Radical Ice
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My computer kept disconnecting from the internet so I finally called RoadRunner and they said that I had a "port open" and that's why my modem kept shutting down as someone was trying to gain entry. Well, that was way over my head, plus I had Norton installed, but a girl at Best Buy (computer store here in Houston) suggested Panda AntiVirus.
I downloaded their trial version and get there newsletter free for 30 days. It "fixed" my computer, but alerts me every few hours that it blocked access to someone trying to get into my computer. DAMN! Is it probable that there are so many attempts???
Anyway, I'm glad I got it (so far, at least), and wondered if anyone else had any suggestions. I also got this newsletter they sent that was quite informative and seems to mirror what we are hearing on the news lately...
Madrid, August 1 2003 - CERT® Coordination Center has warned -at
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html - that hackers are scanning
the Internet searching for computers affected by a vulnerability in the RPC
protocol reported by Microsoft on July 16. As Oxygen3 24h-365d reported
immediately after, this problem affects various versions of Windows and
could allow arbitrary code to be run.
This activity reported by the CERT® Coordination Center could be the prelude
to a wider-scale attack on the Internet. The situation has been aggravated
by the publication on the Internet, by groups of hackers, of the code needed
to exploit the vulnerability.
On July 16 Microsoft reported -at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp - the
vulnerability in the RPC protocol. At the same time, the company announced
the availability of the patch to fix it, recommending all users that could
be affected to install it.
The problem lies in the fact that the part of the RPC that deals with TCP/IP
message exchange doesn't handle malformed messages properly. The
vulnerability affects the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
interface with RPC, allowing arbitrary code to be run.
Microsoft has classified the vulnerability as "critical" in systems with
Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003.
The 5 most frequently detected viruses by Panda ActiveScan, Panda Software's
free online antivirus: 1)Bugbear.B; 2)Fornight.E; 3)PSWBugbear.B; 4)Klez.I;
5)Parite.B.
I downloaded their trial version and get there newsletter free for 30 days. It "fixed" my computer, but alerts me every few hours that it blocked access to someone trying to get into my computer. DAMN! Is it probable that there are so many attempts???
Anyway, I'm glad I got it (so far, at least), and wondered if anyone else had any suggestions. I also got this newsletter they sent that was quite informative and seems to mirror what we are hearing on the news lately...
Madrid, August 1 2003 - CERT® Coordination Center has warned -at
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html - that hackers are scanning
the Internet searching for computers affected by a vulnerability in the RPC
protocol reported by Microsoft on July 16. As Oxygen3 24h-365d reported
immediately after, this problem affects various versions of Windows and
could allow arbitrary code to be run.
This activity reported by the CERT® Coordination Center could be the prelude
to a wider-scale attack on the Internet. The situation has been aggravated
by the publication on the Internet, by groups of hackers, of the code needed
to exploit the vulnerability.
On July 16 Microsoft reported -at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp - the
vulnerability in the RPC protocol. At the same time, the company announced
the availability of the patch to fix it, recommending all users that could
be affected to install it.
The problem lies in the fact that the part of the RPC that deals with TCP/IP
message exchange doesn't handle malformed messages properly. The
vulnerability affects the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
interface with RPC, allowing arbitrary code to be run.
Microsoft has classified the vulnerability as "critical" in systems with
Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003.
The 5 most frequently detected viruses by Panda ActiveScan, Panda Software's
free online antivirus: 1)Bugbear.B; 2)Fornight.E; 3)PSWBugbear.B; 4)Klez.I;
5)Parite.B.
