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nimda crashing Win32 apache???

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by lprikockis

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Hello--
I'm running apache 1.3.9 on a Windows NT4 machine. In the last few days, it's been throwing a barrage of "Dr. Watson" errors: "Exception: Access Violation..." to the point where eventually, the server gets bogged down and crashes.

Since this particular server has been running faithfully without this problem in the past, I'm suspecting that the Nimda worm (which, from the logs, is scanning it quite ferociously) might be to blame.

Has anyone else experienced problems with the Win32 version of apache as a result of worm scanning??? I haven't seen any reports on the web, but then again, most of the attention has been focused on IIS servers, not apache (which in theory ought to be immune, right?)

any thoughts would be appreciated...

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by carrie.collins

We recieved the Nimda virus yesterday, and also recieved a great deal of Dr. Watson errors from it. It has caused errors in Excel 2000 as well. It has apparently caused the 'save as' function to stop working on some machines, as well as the 'open'file function to stop functioning. Any help? These are all NT 4.0 machines, and simply uninstalling, re-installing doesn't seem to be helping.

by clearsmashdrop

we got hit hard, we had to bring down the network and clean each machine 1 at a time.
sucks to be us.

anyway, if you see .exe files running over and over on a machine then you are probably infected. Ive seen pinball.exe get infected, DrWatson, iexplorer, and a bunch of others.

Also, the virus dumps loads of *.eml files all over the hard drive and into mapped drives across the network.

by bren1ron

Format your hard drive, then reinstall.

Use Windows Update on a regular basis to make sure you have the latest security patches. This will reduce your future vulnerablity.

Good luck...

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