{"id":914,"date":"2003-09-08T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2020-08-20T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:06:13","slug":"it-was-w32-nachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/it-was-w32-nachi\/","title":{"rendered":"It was W32\/Nachi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, so network throughput on my computers totally sucked all day, even at work in the office at WonkaTech. Finally, remembering Lisa&#8217;s exhortations over the last week or so to run Stinger, McAfee&#8217;s new antivirus tool, I did so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both my laptop and my desktop at home were infected with W32\/Nachi, which is a RPC\/DCOM exploit based Internet worm that actually tries to de-infect computers of *another* worm, W32\/Lovesan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embarassing to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m now fully patched on both machines, and internet access is back to normal. We don&#8217;t know if I caught it from machines at Wonka (quite possible, they&#8217;ve been riddled with virus problems recently) or if it was related to the problems our broadband service experienced over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so network throughput on my computers totally sucked all day, even at work in the office at WonkaTech. Finally, remembering Lisa&#8217;s exhortations over the last week or so to run Stinger, McAfee&#8217;s new antivirus tool, I did so. Both my laptop and my desktop at home were infected with W32\/Nachi, which is a RPC\/DCOM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}