full-disclosure - Blaster Side Affect?

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From: hmason at dbsinet.com (henry j. mason)
Subject: Blaster Side Affect?

	about 1.5 weeks before the worm appeared, my windows 2000
	machine stopped resolving DNS names. a reboot would solve
	the problem, then after an hour it would stop working again.
	networking was fine otherwise - resolving hosts via the
	hosts file worked and you could reach machines by numeric
	ip address. restarting the DNS client service did nothing.
	in fact, i never found a solution, and ended up installing
	windows on new hardware and moving my files over.

	what a waste of time.

	i have no idea if this is related to the worm or just a bug
	in windows (god forbid). but since your symptoms appear to
	be similar i thought i would mention it.

	if this is your problem, and you find a fix, i'd really like
	to know about it...

	regards,
	henry


Adam wrote:

> My apologies if this is a stupid question.  I haven't seen this mentioned on
> the list yet and I haven't heard about until today when some customers
> called. It seems that after they get the worm ( which I have been telling
> the to update since July...go figure ) and remove it. They can no longer get
> to any websites.  Checked all the settings and they are good. They can ping
> outside there network and get email through outlook. Just can't browse any
> websites?  Anyone heard of this or why it is happening?  Or how to fix it.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Adam Richards
> 
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