Author: r.c. richards
Date: 18:45:23 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 14:17:13, Dan Newman wrote: >You get this worm by turning on drive sharing. I'd done this for easy >access on my LAN, but didn't realize that the drive was also accessible >via the internet--or at least I figured with dynamic IP addresses that I >was fairly safe... The worm apparently generates "random" IP addresses >and when it finds one that's real it attempts to access the C drive. >When it finds one that's open (no password protection), it then copies >itself (several files) into various locations, modifies the registry and >so forth. >I got no retaliatory action from deleting the wininit.exe or dnetc.exe >files. (Actually, I renamed them first just in case they were important >system files.) The thing seemed fairly benign except for all the hassle. >(The worst part about it is I now have Norton antivirus on my system >which iself seems very virus like :).) NAV 2001 uses less system resources than 2000. Black Ice is widely considered a very good defense against this type of thing, but I'm not sure it can help if you've got file sharing turned on. If you install Black Ice, you'll probably find that your computer senses probes by hackers about twice a day. The thing is, is that if they get in, it's very easy to steal passwords. I have to change my password at work every 30 days, and I got tired of calling DP and asking them what it was, so I downloaded a file from some site that just tells me all my passwords when I fire up the program. RC
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