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Kier
Wed 19th Sep '01, 9:39am
*sigh*

Yet another worm that exploits IIS has been found out in the wild, and this one is particularly nasty.The only safe way to recover from the system compromise is to format the system drive(s) and reinstall the system software from trusted mediaWe strongly recommend that anyone running an NT or 2000 server connected to the internet read the CERT article and download the appropriate securtity hotfixes from Microsoft.

CERT Article: http://www.cert.org/body/advisories/CA200126_FA200126.html

Microsoft Hotfix: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-044.asp

Kier
Tue 2nd Oct '01, 10:23am
As a little update, you may receive a file named 'nimda_fix.exe' via email...

Do not run this file.

See the link below for full details.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21972.html