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tintub
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Aug 18, 2003, 08:07 PM
 
Seems somebody has written a worm which uses the same exploit as the blast worm, but this one downloads and installs the necessary updates, gets rid of the blast worm if it was already on there, and then deletes itself eventually.

Isn't that cool?

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100559.htm
     
sniffer
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Aug 18, 2003, 08:12 PM
 
Talk about beating msblast in its own game. Not bad. Wonder if MS have something to do with this?

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