ATTENTION: W32.Blaster.Worm Circulating!

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Originally posted by lovemyshiba
Lizbud,
I don't remember what it was, and my husband took it to work with him today.
I know it was an update disk or something for windows XP, and that's the end of my knowledge.

My computer also kept doing a timed shutdown, and we couldn't keep it on long enough to fix it at first.

I always ignore the update prompts too:o :o :o

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Thanks, I'll stop by Best Buys on the way home & ask them.
Hope their not swamped with people, or sold out of fix it disks.
I am such a goober for not taking this risk thing more seriously
before now. :( :( I wany my Pet Talk fix TONIGHT. LOL. :p

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Keep in mind this virus is not spreading via email -- it is sneaking in through TCP Ports 4444 and 135, and UDP port 69, so if you have a firewall, CLOSE THESE PORTS! [/B]

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How do I close these ports with Norton? It has a Personal Firewall, can I close them from that?

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Originally posted by luckies4me
How do I close these ports with Norton? It has a Personal Firewall, can I close them from that?

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You should be able to - I'm not familiar with norton personal firewall though.

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:) One of the advantages to being on a MAC. Who'd bother writing a virus for us. It would hit like, 12 computers!

Sorry you guys are getting slammed....:(

Oooh..not good. I think my computer has the virus. :( Lately it's been shutting the internet off my itself. Also sometimes I'll get a pop up that tells me an error has occured and that i have to close all my internet windows, which is not fun for someone who just finished typing out a really long post, and then the copy/paste command doesn't work. I deleted my stupid virus checker because I didn't have any more room in my c drive...looks like I'll have to delete some stuff I really want to keep so I can download it again. :(

Not good indeed. Good luck.

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Originally posted by babolaypo65
:) One of the advantages to being on a MAC. Who'd bother writing a virus for us. It would hit like, 12 computers!

Sorry you guys are getting slammed....:(

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Any other time I would be laughing at that, but.... Oh heck,
might as well laugh. It's better than going nuts about this.:D :D
I'm so glad I just got the book I've been waiting for from the
library van today. It's the book ChrisH talked about "The Culture
Clash". It's gonna be a long quite night tonight, I can feel it.:)

I think my comp. have the virus :( We have no firewall only Ad-awere :rolleyes:

This has been posted before, but it's a really good site! :)

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

Umm! I thought I might have it, because
when I am searching the web the last 3 days, sometime my
PC stops responding. But it looks like this worm
doesn not affect Windows 98 so I must be safe.

Another good antivirus is called PC-Cillin. If it can't eradicate the virus it can quarantine it; cut it off from the outside. We got attacked at work. SEcond time in one week!

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Originally posted by KYS
But it looks like this worm
doesn not affect Windows 98 so I must be safe.

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Me too. See, sometimes it's good to be behind the times. :)

My computer was infected with this :rolleyes:

Only took us 2 hours to fix it, LOL.


Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! I don't know what I would have done without it!


Ash

posted by micki76:Me too. See, sometimes it's good to be behind the times. :)>>>>>>

Yep! Yep! Yep! :D

Does this virus afect Windows 2000?

I'm just scanning for viruses with Norton , now