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“The good thing is that they’re both fairly easy to deal with,” Davis said. “The danger is in the derivative versions that are being made.”
While Blaster has been present since the summer school term, Sobig is a relatively new threat, Davis said.
“It’s [Sobig that has] been affecting students already—our mail volume has been significantly higher,” Davis said. “It’s quite good at spreading quickly and leaving behind undesirable software on people’s...
To attack the Blaster worm, HASCS has provided a patch on their website that will fix infected machines by closing the vulnerability that the worm and its variants exploit to attack computers. But Blaster hits systems so quickly that students must install the patch immediately upon connecting to the network...
Since the Blaster worm causes infected computers to successively reboot, Davis said, he does not anticipate hesitation among affected users to use the patch.