Were you hit by the Blaster Worm?

[Canis Lupus]

With recent reports (http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16627) of an Internet worm running rampant and attacking Windows systems through a vulnerability in the Distributed Component Object, we have seen lots of people getting hit by it, causing a variety of errors, most commonly the Remote Procedure Call (http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16609) and Svchost (http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16651) errors ...

So, have you been hit by the worm?

[Mike72]

unfortunetly yes

[Outlaw]

It shut my system down once. It only happened because I had myself setup as DMZ host on my router, I thought it would be handy to have all ports available at all times, lol. I thought it was pretty unusual to see my pc shut down by itself, so I ran a full virus scan (even though I have a virus scanner active at all times), this time a web-based one. It found nothing, so I decided not to be a DMZ host anymore, and never had it happen again. Then a few days later I read all this and it pretty much explains everything.

[Null Actor]

I didn't get the worm, though I ended up getting hacked through that exploit. The RPC errors aren't necessarily a sign of infection however, since I did have the RPC errors, but didn't have the worm.

[Tecil]

Not I or any of my computers at work. Though my sister got it good. I ended up having to clean her system up last night.

[taco_fox]

Nope

[nocode]

Nope, I'm ok, but my Mother's computer got it! While I was still at work yesterday, my Wife went over to her house, and took care of patching and cleaning the worm from her computer.

[ZeRo_MaXwInG]

Nope, but everyone of my friends with XP did.

[RingWraith]

Yes. :(

[Shalome]

All cool at home, all cool at work.. life is good. :)

[Bobaroo]

Nope. My dads office got hit with it though

[AK47]

I got it

this is the first time I ever got something like this.

thrilling shit.

[SKYHN]

Now worms, trojans or other viruses here :D

[Hackenslacker]

Can I vote on this if I have a Mac?
:P

[p3ngu!n]

Heh... it got me, but I'm not sure if I got rid of it! I think Norton quarantined it and when I went to check the quarantines, there were none. I think it dissapeared. I ran 2 virus checks to see if it came back but nothing came up... Oh well... no problems to date.

[bLaCkOuT]

Personally I didn't ... but at least 50% of our field workers did ... I may as well have because I had to clean all their systems :(

[Foogar]

Initially it didn't get me, but thanks to the child I had to reformat and it got me during the 2 minutes or so I was online getting patched.

[arturo238]

For the longest time I didn't get it so I thought that i was off free. Just when I though I was fine, my laptop got infected.

[avas_eyes]

I didn't get it.;)
A few online friends did and half of these people don't even have AVs or Firewalls.:(

[chaosisreality]

it's amazing, I have a firewall or so and didn't get hit, but my dads network got brought down baddddd

[Freak]

I like my WinME :D