14 August 2006
Anticipated worm released. Now how much damage will it do?
Well it seems the worm that everyone has been talking about has been released. Let's just hope that it doesn't do so widespread damage as predicted.
Cuebot-L and Cuebot-M worms were discovered yesterday. These worms spread through chat programs and then through network shares on infected networks. Both of these live in the registry of Windows and allow outside computers to access the infected computers.
The good news is that if you have patched Windows after last Thursday there was a patch for the vulnerability this worm exploits, so those computers are safe.
Also most anti-virus programs are able to protect against it if they have been updated very recently. The problem is that not all anti-virus programs run constantly, which leaves the computer open to get the worm, but at least it should be able to be removed as well.
So the only thing to do is to wait and see if it affects many computers.
Cuebot-L and Cuebot-M worms were discovered yesterday. These worms spread through chat programs and then through network shares on infected networks. Both of these live in the registry of Windows and allow outside computers to access the infected computers.
The good news is that if you have patched Windows after last Thursday there was a patch for the vulnerability this worm exploits, so those computers are safe.
Also most anti-virus programs are able to protect against it if they have been updated very recently. The problem is that not all anti-virus programs run constantly, which leaves the computer open to get the worm, but at least it should be able to be removed as well.
So the only thing to do is to wait and see if it affects many computers.
Labels: antivirus, microsoft, os, vulnerability, windows, worm
