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FW: What the heck is this msblast.exe

  • From: Drew Weaver
  • Date: Tue Aug 12 09:50:06 2003


The real injustice is the 15k program someone sent to sec-focus that you
type in an IP address and it returns a command prompt on the target machine
(eek).

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:45 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: What the heck is this msblast.exe

Medium????  That's an irresponsible rating, considering that both MS and the
Department of Homeland Security have listed the vulnerability as critical. 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:27 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: What the heck is this msblast.exe

>From your description I would imagine it to be the Blaster ( We called it
W32/Lovsan.worm )

Many posts on forums - We list it as a Medium On Watch alert - other AV orgs
have a similar classification.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100547.htm

Lee Fisher
Solutions Architect
McAfee Product Management

-----Original Message-----
From: Minchu Mo
To: [email protected]
Sent: 11/08/03 15:00
Subject: What the heck is this msblast.exe



The code resides in c:\winnt\system32.



It somehow change my registry and pretend to be Window autoupdate in 

\Localsystem\software\microsoft\window\run, so it can run when I boot the 

machine.  Now it sending out packet to random(?)IP 's endpoint port

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Your network firewall and IDS products do not prevent Web application
attacks - the most common form of online exploitation- resulting in Web
defacement, data theft, sabotage and fraud.
KaVaDo is the only company that provides a complete suite of Web application
security products.
Download a FREE whitepaper on "Security Policy Automation for Web
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Your network firewall and IDS products do not prevent Web application 
attacks - the most common form of online exploitation- resulting in Web 
defacement, data theft, sabotage and fraud.
KaVaDo is the only company that provides a complete suite of Web 
application security products.
Download a FREE whitepaper on "Security Policy Automation for Web
Applications":http://www.securityfocus.com/Kavado-focus-ms
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