Virus?

PowerHouseDan

One of my mates rang me up,there is a virus on his computer,The one that says there is an illegal opperation the computer will shut down in 60 seconds,how do you get ride of it again?

tuxy

do a search for blaser worm

Ste-

Could be the new sasser virus too.

j0e9o

argh i ve got the blaster virus but its under a new name and i cant find it anywhere can someone tell me a good virus scanner that will get rid of it?

Dempsey

Buy Norton Antivirus or download the free version of AVG

W32.Sasser Removal Tool

Nick_oliveri

Shhhiat, hope i dont get that again. Is it sent out in waves every now or then or are ye getting .exe files on kazza?

Anima

AVG didn't remove it fully because i got the "closing in 60 seconds thing" after i had removed it . Hopefully this symantec tool will do it.

Stephen

If its Sasser you have, go here for full instructions on how to remove it and protect yourself against it:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp

Mutant_Fruit

the best protection is to run a software firewall (Kerio is my choice) and to never open e-mail attachments unless you're 110% sure they're safe. I.e. when you get a few words in the main body of the e-mail, and its something like "Your document is attached" just delete it.

BloodBath

Aye Norton is great for viruses. It's well worth buying. I had two nasty ones a while ago that were causing my system to crash but managged to get rid of them and the errors seemed to sort themselves out after a few days.


Spybot then for everything else. It finds a lot of stuff that norton doesn't find.


BloodBath

Mutant_Fruit

Why buy expensive software when free alternatives are available.

Kerio personal firewall is the best free one (in my opinion...) and Anti-Virus Guard 7 is the best free anti-virus proggy.

Those two programs and common sense protect my computer better than any commercial program.

PowerHouseDan

i got the blaster fix worked grand but that sasser virus is all over the place lucky i got to it early but ti really fecked up my friends computer,the only way he could get rid of it was by the trend online virus scan:)
P.s anyone who makes a virus should be killed

Dempsey

Originally posted by powerhousedan
P.s anyone who makes a virus should be killed

Anyone that doesnt keep windows updated should be shot. Ya think people would learn after the W32.Blaster.Worm:rolleyes:

whosurpaddy

if u need to stop the shutdown thing go to the run command and type "shutdown -a" without the commas and that will stop the shutdown. its not a solution and you should only use it to let you download the patch.

shinzon

Originally posted by Dempsey
Anyone that doesnt keep windows updated should be shot. Ya think people would learn after the W32.Blaster.Worm:rolleyes:

I agree with this totally, you wouldnt believe the amount of people i have to deal with in my work to this day that still gets the blaster worm on there pcs, they come on shouting and roaring about how its all our fault.

I have no sympathy for anybody who does not keep there software updated, basic common sense

Now this sasser worms gonna be the bain of my life for the next 3 years SIGH

Shin