Thread: Merged: W32 Blaster Virus
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Old 13-08-2003, 10:37   #104
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Originally posted by distortal

One thing to note: Most of the machines hitting us don't appear to be protected at all. You can access the drives remotely using 'backslash-blackslash-ip' (eg: \\11.22.33.44) and most of them will show a list of shared directories, so it turns out that this worm is advertising open machines.
Hmm, I can see plenty of wannabe hackers taking advantage of this then, going through thier firewall logs and finding out who's PC they can visit.
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