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Re: A warning from someone who has suffered...
Posted by Sammy on Thu Aug 14, 2003 04:09:18 PM
In reply top A warning from someone who has suffered... posted by Tony C on Thu Aug 14, 2003 04:51:35 AM
I'm definitely a novice when it comes to computer operations. My computer has Norton Antivirus, Systemsworks and Personal Firewall and I download the updates and scan the harddrive daily. Even with that I did get that worm32 / msblast virus. It almost killed my computer.
The fix to eradicate the virus is at windowsupdate.microsoft.com
What took me a while to figure out was that in order to download the fix - I had to turn off the Antivirus and the Firewall. It only took about 6 hours to figure this out. Once I did that the patch downloaded easily. Now the computer runs great again.
On a brighter note - will there be a WIX gathering at Reno this year? I'll be there.
Sammy
The words "balls", "hanging by" and "if I catch the (inser
: t your choice of swear word) who created the virus" kept c
: oming to my mind.
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: I also bought a new machine on Tuesday, switched it on yes
: terday and the first item I installed was my modem and ban
: g, the virus appeared.
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: I hadn't even loaded my ISP software and the bast##d was o
: n both machines.
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: I am not very computer literate and it has taken me the be
: st part of 18 hours to sort the problem out and even now m
: y old machine is unstable although this is probably more b
: ecause I don't know what I'm doing.
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: Anyway, start virus free.
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: Tony
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