W32.Blaster: Download Mirror for Worm Patch
by Volker Weber
The incubation period is over. Until now the activities of the Windows worm W32.Blaster were limited to a rapid propagation across Windows systems. But on August 16, the worm's damage routines will become active. In Australia, it's already Saturday; consequently the worm has already started to hit Microsoft's servers.
At this point, Microsoft's download server and the Windows Update site are experiencing a significant slowdown. Sometimes, the servers won't connect at all. As more continents cross the date border, the attacks are only likely to increase. In the mean time, Microsoft has shut down the DNS resolution for their windowsupdate.com URL. At this point, the server can still be reached through windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
After contacting Microsoft Germany, heise online has decided to locally mirror the files needed to fix the security hole on Windows systems. The following patches are available on the heise FTP server, effective immediately ...
