A new worm is spreading.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d_040501203913
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A new worm is spreading.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d_040501203913
Here are the steps to remove it (from Microsoft):
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp
Source: ZDNet > News Security > May 1, 2004 08:25 AM PT > Sasser work begins spreadingQuote:
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The Sasser worm spreads from infected computer to vulnerable computer with no user intervention required. The worm scans for vulnerable systems, creates a remote connection to the system, installs a file transfer protocol (FTP) server and then downloads itself to the new host.
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Microsoft has posted a scanning and removal tool for Sasser. See here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en