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Subject: Re: virus

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 20:33:44 05/02/04

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On May 02, 2004 at 21:17:42, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On May 02, 2004 at 18:14:14, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2004 at 17:30:39, clarence hurd wrote:
>>
>>>dose any how to remove the  sulpher virus   its a  new one thanks
>>
>>Maybe you mean the latest virus with a similar name called sasser?
>>
>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.removal.tool.html
>
>What an awful virus to remove ...I just had remove it from son's laptop  ...not
>particulary harmful -- but it has a nasty habit of shutting the machine every 5
>minutes -- not quite lokng enough to get the necessary update ...

Your response made me curious. It's a real nasty one. I hadn't been infected,
but looking at what has been written about it, I have availed myself of the the
MS security patch update. Thanks.

>
>Here's the tip of the day -- it gives you 60 seconds before shutting down ...go
>to the start menu, select run and type without the quotes "shutdown -a" it will
>sbort the shutdown and then run the antivirsus software install the Windows
>security patches.
>
>2nd tip, have MS update the security patches automatically (under Win2k and
>WinXP) under the comtrol panel.  I thought I had my son's set - but it was off.



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