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Subject: Re: serious issues with playchess.com server...

Author: Brian Thomas

Date: 19:35:44 08/11/03

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I suppose that it may be possible (any software may have exploits) although I
suspect if you're hooked up to the internet, this was the cause, not your
connection to Playchess.  This is a fairly new exploit: if you haven't patched
it, do so...

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

I believe (although I may be wrong on this) that you need to have certain ports
open, so are you behind a firewall/NAT?

Brian



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