new worm hits the internet

whiskeytown · #1 08-16-2005, 08:10 PM

Windows 2000 and early XP boxes are vulunerable - causes reboots of the CPU - it's messy (hit CNN) -

My company was aware of the exploit 4 days ago and were patching like crazy - knowing it was GONNA come.

here's some info - http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/16/2...20&tid=188

RB

kerssens · #2 08-16-2005, 08:11 PM

awesome.

CrazyEyez · #3 08-16-2005, 08:22 PM

Blech. My entire company was hit today (Minneapolis). 2k users either had spontaneous reboots every 5 minutes or so, or got a black screen upon reboot prompting you to do a repair install. Ugly. XP machines on my floor were unaffected. Consequently I did very little work from 2-5. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

sfer · #4 08-16-2005, 08:54 PM

Got it at work. Everyone left early as IT tried to deal with it.

kerssens · #5 08-16-2005, 08:57 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Got it at work. Everyone left early as IT tried to deal with it.

[/ QUOTE ]

me too....I laughed and drank while I laughed.

tek · #6 08-17-2005, 09:26 AM

[ QUOTE ]
Windows 2000 and early XP boxes are vulunerable - causes reboots of the CPU

[/ QUOTE ]

Woo hoo! I'm glad I'm a cheap bastard that still uses Win98 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

lucas9000 · #7 08-17-2005, 10:06 AM

the it person in my office is out this week. this could get ugly...

CrazyEyez · #8 08-17-2005, 10:16 AM

adshasdfhk mine is effed up. They say my drive will need to be reimaged. I assume this means loss of data on c:\.
[img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

RacersEdge · #9 08-17-2005, 11:16 AM

Does it also slow down your OS? Mine was crawling last night - didn't get the reboot - but did get a reboot last week. I dowloaded the patch for XP SP2, rebooted, and it worked fine.