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Subject: Re: Virus Help

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 18:54:29 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 20:22:18, Jeff White wrote:

>I won't ask here again and sorry to those that may be bothered by this. After
>doing a google search I can't come up with any forums to ask this in. After a
>very long and frustrating day, I can't seem to get the computer to work. What is
>happening is once I turn it on, it stays on for about a minute and then turns
>off, then just re-starts. I was told it may be the sasser worm, but I don't see
>any of the file names when I do the ctrl-alt-del thing. I can't keep the thing
>on long enough to do anything with it. Is there anywhere I can go to ask this or
>anything I can do? The operating system is XP it's a Pentium 4 512 meg ram
>2.4ghz machine if that helps. Thanks for any help and being patient with these
>questions. Thanks again.
>
>Regards,
>Jeff

I'm 95% sure you have the lasser worm.  The "shutdown -a" is the key.  You may
wish to consider a firewall - machines not protected these days are extremely
vulnerable.



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