Were you hit by the Blaster Worm?

**Canis Lupus** · 08-13-2003, 01:52 PM

With recent reports 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 and Svchost errors ...

So, have you been hit by the worm?

**Mike72** · 08-13-2003, 01:58 PM

unfortunetly yes

**Outlaw** · 08-13-2003, 02:09 PM

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** · 08-13-2003, 02:22 PM

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** · 08-13-2003, 02:52 PM

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** · 08-13-2003, 02:54 PM

**nocode** · 08-13-2003, 04:10 PM

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.