W32/Blaster.A

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W32/Blaster.A Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:
  
• Detected by virus detection files published: 8/12/2003 • Type: Worm
• Virus characteristics first published: 8/12/2003 • Spreading mechanism: Network
• Virus characteristics latest update: 9/20/2005 • Overall risk: Medium
• Alias: MSBlast.A • Payload: Performs a denial of service attack
• Infection type: Microsoft Windows 95/98/98 SE/ME/NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista  

Virus type Spreading
mechanism 		Destructivity
and payload 		Additional
descriptions 		Detection
and removal
This worm spreads using a buffer overflow exploit in Windows DCOM RPC service. The file, called MSBlast.exe, is 6176 bytes long, and compressed using UPX.
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