Poll: Affected by msblast worm?

[Lager]

Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: coldcut
Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

No. Firewalls are great.

 

[boyRacer]

No.

 

[deerslayer]

Yes, all the morons in the dorms that don't know how to get it fixed are fubaring the network.

 

[BurnItDwn]

nope. 1. Firewall, 2. I regularly patch windows.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Nope. It doesn't affect Win98.

 

[MovingTarget]

Yes! Personally, i had the sense to patch my system as soon as i knew about it and before i got infected. However, most home users, are idiots. I go to college and live in a dorm. When everyone moved back in on sunday, many of them brought that virus with them. It became such a problem on our network that we (the IT department) had to shut it down completely, check every machine/dorm/office ON CAMPUS, fix them up, and reinstate the network. We had several hundred machines effected, which is easily half the population on campus. This worm SUCKS!!

 

[ElFenix]

nope, sure didn't

 

[trmiv]

My parents got it. I, of course, had to fix it.

 

[jonmullen]

My connection was, cox had problems allday on the 16th thanks to it.

 

[Eli]

Don't think so.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: coldcut
Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

No

 

[IcePhoenix]

No, but anyone that plugs their computer into the schools network gets it within 5 minutes. Guess who works at the help desk and has to fix all THAT.

 

[Vadatajs]

Not me personally, I run linux, but at work there is plenty for me to take care of.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: coldcut
Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

Nope 🙂

 

[Gyrene]

No, it doesn't affect Gentoo or FreeBSD

 

[DaveSimmons]

"Not me, but deleting 300 worm emails from slack-jawed yokels did waste some of my time."

MS' thought of force-feeding patches to the masses isn't such a bad idea, as long as I can turn it off myself.

 

[amdskip]

Not my computer but I have received about 80 of those email viruses today alone. The campus network has been slower because of the virus and I can tell that there are many computers with the virus simply by browsing the neighborhood network.

 

[dakata24]

no me personally, but my department did. now i know how to get rid of it (got the mblast.d variant) manually.

 

[Kaervak]

No. Unlike the majority of people I use a firewall and actually update the OS when new security patches are released.

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: coldcut
Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

No. Firewalls are great.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: coldcut
Is your connection or were you affected by the blaster worm?

No. Firewalls are great.

Ditto...Worm squashed by my firewall 😀


Ausm

 

[glugglug]

Yes, the Blaster worm in a roundabout way caused the blackout in the NE. This definately affected me.

No, I have never had a machine infected. Not that stupid.

 

[GiLtY]

Nope, firewall pwns msblaster and the n00bs.

--GiLtY

 

[Bryophyte]

Yep. 😱 Last reinstall (not long ago), didn't get the Zonealarm going again (thought I had.) DAMNIT. And the main symptom was weird, buggered javascript.