Resurgence of MS Blaster maybe?

[Hodsocks]

I know this is an old thread but does anyone one know if there is a new variant of the MSblaster worm.

I ask because I thought I had fixed this problem 5 months ago by installing the patch from Microsoft site and running the removal tool from Symantec.

This week it has reared its ugly head again on the same machine, so I loaded the latest patch for it from the MS site and also ran the removal tool from the MS site. Thinking this was the last of it I went online and after about an hour or so, would you believe it the "NT Authority" box appeared and the machine proceeded to close down.

I have also seen this happen on another machine that had had the patch installed a few months ago,

What's going on here???

 

[Masque]

There've been a number of variants of Blaster since its' inception....the most recent dated 4/21. These things are constantly evolving. The best thing to do is keep all the patches up-to-date as well as your virus definition files.