[Lennyjoe]

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that the W32.Blaster Worm is infecting computers around the world. It got mine and Im in the process of installing the Microsoft patch for Xp and getting rid of the worm.

To keep this gun related it was shutting down my computer and driving me nuts. Almost took out the 12 guage with OO buck and blew it away.

Wonder how the Dell would of taken it.

Anyway, here's (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030812/wr_nm/tech_windows_worm_dc_3) the url for the story

For Microsoft info go Here (http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-026.asp)

Moderators, you can close this as you deem necessary. Just wanted to let everyone know whats up so they can take care of it before it gets them. Will keep you off of THR for a few hours till you get ahold of it. Good luck.

[Lennyjoe]

Here was my process:

1) I stopped my system from shutting itself down by going to START, CONTROL PANEL, ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, COMPONENT SERVICES. Then I selected Services (local) from the left hand window. I found Remote Procedure Call (RPC) from the right hand window, right click, porperties. From the RECOVERY tab I then set it changed the settings so it wouldn't restart everytime.

2) Go to the site Microsoft has created for the patch: http://microsoft.com/technet/treevi...in/MS03-026.asp

From there I downloaded the 32 bit XP patch.

3) I restarted my system.

4) I went to my task manager and stopped MSblaster.exe

5) I started my Norton Program and downloaded the latest updates. It deleted it for me.

6) I searched for any reminates and found another file with MSBlaster.exe in it. I deleted it.

7) I restart my computer.

[Lennyjoe]

Heres the Symantic link that explains the worm and how to get rid of it.

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

[Schuey2002]

Thanks for the info, Lennyjoe. :)

[Kaylee]

Yup, thanks for the heads up!!

Moderators, you can close this as you deem necessary. Just wanted to let everyone know whats up so they can take care of it before it gets them. Will keep you off of THR for a few hours till you get ahold of it. Good luck.

As you wish.

OT.

:)

-K