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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