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Lovescan Attacks

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My Kapersky anti-hacker is reporting a lot of Lovescan attacks in the last 10 minutes, mainly from Italy but one from the UK.

Any ideas what these are?
 
I believe it's a virus, a bit like MS Blast, in that it works by infecting vulnerable PC's connected to the internet (rather than by email).

If your firewall is detecting it I assume it is also denying access too. It's a good idea to make sure your patches are up to date just to be sure though.
 
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The attacks, though unsucessful, are still happening every 2 minutes or two. I am using XP Pro but my updates are up to date.

Anyone else suffering this?
 
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If you are patched then you are safe (I think) as it uses the same vulnerability that MSBlast did, which MS issues an urgent patch for a little while ago.

Given that your firewall software is also picking it up, I wouldn't worry too much.

Andy
 
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