What is THE WORM???

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What is THE WORM???
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Wed, 08-13-2003 - 3:54pm
I have been asleep or working since sunday. whats going on--in a nut-shell??I am a PC dummy. I have anti-virus stuff on my PC..does that help?? what happens the 16th?? Oh well, any info that pertains to us would be helpful!!xoxo mel

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 4:00pm
Mel, I now know stuff about this. The worm is called W32.Blaster.Worm.

It only affects Windows XP or Windows 2000, so I'm OK cuz we've got

Windows ME. According to the guys here at work today, its ALREADY hit...

they don't think anything is gonna happen more on the 16th. Its already

hit our office.

But.......like I said, unless you have the 2 Windows applications above,

you're A-OK.


Edited 8/13/2003 4:08:06 PM ET by stel2002

* Stel *

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 5:05pm


>>But.......like I said, unless you have the 2 Windows applications above,

you're A-OK.

**Thanks for that info Stel. :) Hope your puter guys are right. :)

~Golly

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 5:18pm
>>I have anti-virus stuff on my PC..does that help?? what happens the 16th?? Oh well, any info that pertains to us would be helpful!!

**I don't know much myself Mel ..

Just know keep your virus stuff up to date daily as often as you can right now.

I'm sure others will tell you more

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 5:19pm
>>It only affects Windows XP

**I do .. ut oh :(

Now what do I do ..

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Registered: 04-04-2002
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 5:28pm
Now what do I do .. Hugs, go to the Symantec site Golly posted. I think you said you have Nortons? Hilary
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Wed, 08-13-2003 - 5:47pm


Hey Hilary,

I hope everyone is making this out to be worse tha it is ..

We updated with Norton and Windows ..

Hopefully all will be well :)

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 10:23pm
Our customers have been hit extremely hard by a virus spreading through

the Internet. This virus goes by different names including W32/Blaster

and W32/Lovsan. This virus is exploiting a problem with Windows 2000 and

Windows XP which usually results in causing the computer to

automatically reboot when it is connected to the Internet. Various

error messages may appear on the screen, some of which may mention "RPC".

According to Microsoft, the best solution to this problem is to make

sure your computer has the patch installed. However, most of the

customers we have tried to help cannot download the update from

Microsoft quickly enough, and the computer reboots before the update has

finished. This virus is very new, so we are trying to solve the problem

using the best information that is available to us.

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This in an email from my DSL team. In an earlier email, they said it has affected millions of computers all over the world. So it is pretty big. I am on ol' Windows 98 so I am ok. This email listed a number of ways to help, well ok, I might as well go back and get that. Just a minute --

We are offering the following options to assist you with the virus:

Download Files

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We are placing two tools on our web page for you to download, if you are

able. These include:

1. The Microsoft security patch that will protect your computer from

getting the virus

2. A program that can remove the virus from your computer

Both of these tools can be found at http://www.bluemarble.net/virus/.

If you unable to stay connected to the Internet long enough to download

these files, you might try to find an unaffected computer where you

could download the files and save them onto a floppy disk. Then you

could take them to your computer and install the security patch and run

the virus removal tool.

Pick up Files

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For customers who are unable to stay connected long enough even to

download the files, we are providing these same files on floppy disks.

They are available for you to pick up at our Jack's Defeat Mall office

in Ellettsville located at 5015 W. St. Rd 46. We will also provide an

information sheet with instructions on how to install the security patch.

If you are unable to get to the office in Ellettsville, your only option

at this moment might be to contact a local computer repair store for help

with this problem.




After installing the security update, we strongly

recommend you do the following if you haven't already:

1. Obtain anti-virus software and install it on your computer. Keep

your virus information on your computer current.

2. Run Windows Update periodically to make sure your computer has all of

the important security patches installed.

Below are a few additional links to websites with more specific

technical information concerning this virus:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100547

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-20.html

For any customers who have called Technical Support about this, or any

other problem, and have not received a call back, we apologize. The

call volume yesterday was extremely high due to this problem. If you

had a problem that is not related to this virus and don't receive a call

back today, please call us again and we will do our best to help you.

That's all I know -- good luck!!!

Love,

Yogi

 

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Registered: 04-04-2002
Thu, 08-14-2003 - 12:15am
Wow Yogi, thanks heaps for that. Hilary
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 08-14-2003 - 12:19am


Gosh YB,

That was really interesting! Thank you for that info.

Hopefully it's about over and everyone is patched and protected.

~Golly
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 08-14-2003 - 12:24am


Thanks for the information yogi ..

The good news is that right now it doesn't do a lot of damage if you get it ..

Also fairly easy to get rid of, whew!

So .. that's some comfort

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