virus alert

[Ed Radz]

Just got done cleaning out a worm called blaster off of my home PC running windows XP. It started re-booting by itself. If you suspect you may have this worm, do a search on a file called MSBLASTER.EXE.

If you have the worm, it will show up in windows/system32. Go to microsoft for the patch. Your anti virus web site should have procedures on how to detect and clean your PC.

Good Luck!

Ed Radz

 

[TomMoorehouse]

do it before saturday as well cause that's what it is expected to start working!

 

[mike]

it only affects NT 2000 and XP. 3.11 - ME aren't affected

 

[snowdog-2112]

Thanks Ed,

That was the first I heard about the actual filename.

Snowdog

 

[Propjockey]

Yep...I got it. >

Fortunately, it's just annoying...not destructive.

Any word on how it's contracted?

 

[Eric Perez]

Info on the Blaseter Virus

The virus is contacted through the net. If you are on-line and have windows 2000 professional or newer and you do not have the patch from microsoft you will probably get it after 20-25 minutes after you are "on-line". This time virus exposure has nothing to do with e-mail or attachments or with pamela_nude-pic.exe files :

If your operating system is a dinasour like mine (98), then you should be okay - I hope ???