Sasser in force
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 3, 2004 at 9:25:47 PM
The newest variant of the worm is spreading quickly. My roommate was just infected. He had Norton on which detected it, but if he had gone to Windows Update, this wouldn't have happened.
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The new worm, Sasser.B, like its predecessor Sasser.A, takes advantage of a vulnerability in unpatched versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems. The worms infect vulnerable systems by establishing a remote connection to the targeted computer, installing a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server and then downloading themselves to the new host.