Imaster - 6:49 am on Aug 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

A description of the virus: [www3.ca.com...]

There seems to be a cleaner available at [www3.ca.com...]

It seems microsoft had warned about this vulnerability in July: [microsoft.com...]

To download the patch, there's a link for each OS there as well :)

For those who may get confused with several names of this worm, here's a quote mentioning the names:

The worm goes by the name MS Blast (ISS X-Force), Blaster (Symantec and Sophos), Win32.Poza (Computer Associates) or Lovsan (McAfee and F-Secure). Symantec rated the urgency of the worm as "high," although most other anti-virus vendors deemed it a medium threat.

[entmag.com...]

[b][added]I cleaned the worm sucessfully by simply running the following program on my comp - [www3.ca.com...]

And then also installing the patches mentioned and removing the key from registry.

BYE BYE MSBLAST.EXE ;)