To everyone from octowings,

I know this is off subject, but heed the warning.

My home computer is back up and running again.
knock on wood. First time I ever had a worm
in my computer.

You all really need to patch your computers.
I lucked out and was able to fix it myself.

Here is a link to CNN. It talks about the virus.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/12/windows.worm/index.html 

Download the patch at windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Hope 'yall haven't been affected yet.

...octo

I had it too. i spent the whole day yesterday trying to get rid of it. my computer kept rebooting in the middle of DLing the patch and then in the middle of installing the patch what a damned pain in the A$$ i have nortons and a firewall and i still got it.

if you havent updated your windows, do it now.

my .02

Aloha,
Jon

CigarNewb,

Yes, same darn thing here, rebooting & everything!
Downloading the worm remover & the patch hoping the
computer doesn't reboot again and again and again
and again and ..................................

...octo

One of my few disciplines is to download the latest critical patches as soon as Microsoft makes them available.

you can't get there from here... Try to hit the site now. It's too busy.

Robby,

I think everyone's going into panic mode. hehehe

...octo

Here is the removal tool for the worm.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html 

...and again and again and again... no damage was done by this stupid worm but OMG let me tell you, if i could have gotten my hands on the fool who unleasshed this worm yesterday, i would be posting this from a jail cell. i was fuming!!

Good luck to all, hope you can DL and install that patch easier than i did.

Jon

I hope this helps but if you have XP go to crt + alt+ delete and go to processes and see if you have msblaster.exe then delete it. IF not go into safe mode *push F8 on start up and delete all the icons normally run on startup. the bug is supposed to eat up bandwitdh. Anymore help email or im me at bigbessie50 (at) hotmail (.) com

Also I left out if you find the msblaster virus right click on start and go to search and try to find msblaster.exe then permenatly delete it.

Yeah...it gave us at Baylor University hell yesterday. Luckily, technology services busted their rear to get the library up and running quickly. Hopefully, they were able to handle the rest of campus likewise. Glad they were here...

Thanks to a friend at the University of Louisville I was able to up my protection. But I got a different kind of virus and I am still working it out. I even put up a firewall today.

Just in case you guys stiil need this, I have both the removal tool and the Windows patch to download. The patch is ONLY for XP. I'll keep it up for a few days so anyone can get it.
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/[email protected] 

Don't mind the 2 MP3's up there, they're for my friend 🙂 If you want them, I guess I could "Share" them with you 🙂

KC