MS BLASTER VIRUS
NOT DANGEROUS, just a pain in the neck.
Our personal server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server went completely stupid yesterday afternoon. I observed "MSBLAST.EXE" running in the processes. Searched the internet yesterday afternoon and did not find a single thing. This is a different animal. It is not the run of the mill email worm.
However, today there is plenty said about it.
You don't have to do anything but have your modem connected to the internet to get this one. Better get the patch and install it at- http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp
Note to techies- Blaster does NOT affect SERVER the same way as described for workstations. It does NOT cause reboots of Server.
IIS shuts down due to too many errors- "Out-of-process+ISAPI+extension+has+exceeded+crash+limit"
Otherwise, Right mouse property clicks do not work and may report a RPC server error, you can't save files, you can't view your WINNT directory and other goofy things. The easiest way to get rid of it is to shut down the MSBLAST.EXE process in Task Manager and then run Regedit-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run
Delete the entry: 攚indows auto update" = MSBLAST.EXE
and then reboot. And then install the patch from Microsoft. Times like this make Linux more attractive.