[4444] in bugtraq
Win95 DoS Fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Rishaw)
Sun May 11 06:00:20 1997
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:19:55 -0400
Reply-To: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net
From: Jamie Rishaw <jamie@DILBERT.IAGNET.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Hello,
Quick fix for Win95 DoS attack:
Look on your Win95 machine for "Vnetbios.vxd" files and rename them.
After, reboot the system (shutdown completely and power-cycle).
This seems to solve the problem.
Two places I know that contains Vnetbios.vxd:
\windows\system\
\aol30\net\osr1
^ or your favourite AOL directory :-)
I dont know any additional ramifications of removing these files,
but I do know they "fix" the problem.
I suggest the only real way to do it on a large scale basis
is to filter off port 139 at Term servers, routers, firewalls, etc.
Jamie Rishaw
Internet Access Group
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