For Win95 and WinNT users
Last Updated March 8/98
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Well, another day, another nuke! It seems another round of DoS(Denial of Service) attacks have appeared on the scene. For those who haven't heard of it yet, it has been called by various names, such as bonk,boink,newtear or teardrop2. This exploit of the buggy windows Tcp/IP implementation causes a crash of windows Tcp/IP stack and a pretty BSoD(Blue Screen of Death). After the screen Your connection to the net will still be active however, windows will be unable send/recieve anything. The only way to restore everything is basically to shut down all your open apps(to save any data to disk) and reboot the system. The following steps will work to protect most users from TearDrop,Land,Winnuke, and Ssping. There are different patches which must be applied depending on whether or not your running Winsock 1 or Winsock 2. If your not sure of which winsock you have, open Windows explorer, or some other File manager type utility and look in your windows\ and windows\system directory's for a file called "ws2_32.dll". If you find this file, then you ARE running Winsock 2. Which therefore means if you don't have it you must be running Winsock 1 :) It is essential you follow the following steps IN ORDER. If you do not you MAY CAUSE DAMMAGE to your own Tcp/IP setup. Should that occur, uninstall Tcp/IP(Control Panel/System) and reinstall Tcp/IP and dialup networking from your Win95 CD. I take NO responsibility if this does not work for you, or if you do it out of order and your system becomes unstable. Be sure that your NOT connected to the internet when you begin this upgrade process since if your connected some of the files are already in use by windows and you can easily corrupt essential files if you try to write to them while they are in use :) |
| Step 1: | Update Winsock wsockupd.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 2: | Update to DUN 1.2 msdun12.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 3: | Winsock Patch(Jolt,Ssping,TearDrop(bonk/boink/newtear)) vipup11.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 4: | Land Patch for Winsock 1.1vtcpup11.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 1: | Update Winsock wsockupd.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 2: | Update to DUN 1.2 msdun12.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 3: | Winsock 2.2 Upgrade ws2setup.exe ,Reboot | Step 4: | Land Patch for Winsock 2 vtcpup20.exe ,Reboot |
| Step 1: | Install Sp3 nt4sp3_i.exe |
| Step 2: | Install Tearfixi.exe ,Reboot |
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Download these files & Install them IN THE ORDER SHOWN. Close out all other programs before installation, reboot your system after you have completed ALL of the steps outlined above. If your looking for more technical information on the nukes/exploits listed above please check out www.irchelp.org a site run by EfNet #IRCHelp. I have found it a great source of information on IRC as well as the nukes used to spoil your IRC fun. Enjoy, GreyFoxx. |