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Registered: January 1970
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I got home from work yesterday and logged on. I didn't open any e-mail. I just went to hotmail. A screen popped up that said: SYSTEM SHUTDOWN..RPC (remote procedure call) is terminating your computer. No matter what I did, it kept coming on. I would log off and it would pop right back up. I was losing icons and my programs wouldn't come up. I couldn't even stay on long enough to tell anyone.
I think I have it under control for the moment. It's a worm called Blaster that attacks mostly home computers and you don't have to open anything to have it. It just gets you when you come on-line. If you have Windows 2001, XP, NT or server 2003, that's what it's going after. I have uptodate Norton Antivirus and it crashed right through it. There is a patch you can download and install. That's what seems to have saved mine. I had no idea I had to have it  Here's the site:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980
Here's an article on MSN news if you want to read it:
http://msnbc.com/m/pt/printthis_main.asp?storyID=951393
smith
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A friend of mine had it on her parents computer and me and another friend ended up trying to get rid of it, and it was surprisingly persistant... First the antivirus software didn't find it, then we managed to remove the virus by booting the computer to safe mode / command prompt and running a dos version of the virus scanner. After that when rebooting it made a come-back, but this time the virus scanner found it and after removing it again, the computer seems to be clean...
I hope none of you catch it!
Setras
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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trevor
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they say, so if you do that regularly you should be good. If you have a firewall, that would be prevent this and similar (yet undiscovered) vulnerabilties. XP comes with one built in, although I prefer a firewall router which I need to share the cable modem with the whole family and VPN to work anyway.
I'll bet money that this will wake me up at about 4 tomorrow morning - my users are 3 hours earlier and all the patching/downloading will kill their internet connections and break my internet-provided applications!
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So correct me if I'm wrong...my new Windows XP has the good things already to prevent this? And Man's Windows 98 won't be attacked anyhow, right?
Sheesh...
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trevor
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Registered: November 2002
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Right. In XP, it has to be turned on and I don't know the settings (may be turned on by default in a normal install?), but it's in Settings - Control Panel - Network Connections - Network Setup Wizard, I think. One of the things I absolutely hate about XP - "The Wizard" - which you can't avoid using so you can't manually tweek settings if you do understand them - ARG!
On Windows 98, disable all printer/folder sharing, remove NetBEUI and NetBios unless you really need it, and turn off the Windows Messaging service to secure it a bit better. We've seen "popup" messages - usually "spam" that use the Windows Messaging service which just displays a dialog box, usually to say your print job is done in a network environment, for example. This is different than Instant Messenger services, although some of those can allow others more access than you'd like, too.
XP Home edition may be different - they maimed a bunch of network functionality, so I dunno.
Sorry for lameness - others surely know more - this is one of those things that is significantly different between a corporate and home environment and I really only know the corporate side.
There are also some free downloadable firewalls, some discussed on Ashley's board awhile back in this thread: http://paulhaskew.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=3f39c8bc556dffff;act=ST;f=18;t=17
(The newer versions of windows and this vunerability invalidates some of my comments there.)
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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At the bottom of your screen, in the taskbar, a little icon will appear frequently when you open your computer with the message "You have Microsoft updates to download". Always do that when it pops up...that's where the patches are. I guess there was glitch in mine.
JJ
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Took me a lot of the afternoon to fix. I found that I had the thing because I kept getting shut down. Dumb me, I hadn't gotten anti-virus updates in the one day I was on-line last week on this new computer. So I downloaded the patch (several attempts where I learned that Win 32 and 64 aren't the same, and which I have...)Ugh!
BIG thanks to smith for pointing it out to Ron, who coached me thru it and sent me the right patch.
Then I downloaded Norton and had to uninstall McAffee...and then I got rid of the worm.
Sheesh, all that amidst more deliveries and a friend visiting from New York City.
What a day. Why do people get off on destroying other people's computers, anyhow???
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Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
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Unless I missed something, it looked like there weren't any versions of the patch for Windows 98. Also I haven't seen 98 mentioned as a target.
I guess I'm just confused.
Think good thoughts,
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No Message Body
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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The very first time I went on line with my brand new computer.
The ironic thing was I only went on line to install the latest Windows updates.
Thanks smith - but for your timely warning I wouldn't have had a clue what was happening.
Downloaded the patch now and seems to be OK.
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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I asked all around today and I was the only person around here that got "Blasted". It seems that a remote computer attacked me and then when I kept restarting, I began to attack someone else somewhere in the world (sorry Nick or David). It didn't go through address books or anything. There were encoded messages in the worm aimed at Bill Gates. It didn't destroy anything, just played havoc with companies and personal computers.
We've all learned now to keep the updates um....updated :)
{{{hugs}}} smith
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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This only affected Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
4 Steps for Home Users:
to help protect and recover if your computer has been infected.
http://www.msn.com/Blaster/msblaster.htm
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Something the link smith posted above doesn't mention is that according to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980#WinXP you need to have Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 1a installed prior to installing the security update to block the worm.
Taken from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;813926
"To determine if you are running Windows XP SP1, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. If "Service Pack 1" appears under System, you are already running Windows XP SP1. There is no benefit to installing SP1a if you are already running Windows XP SP1. Microsoft does not recommend that you install SP1a if you are already running SP1."
And the Windows XP Service Pack 1(a) can be obtained through here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
-Master Li in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
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That internet worm .........Read if you have Windows.. 
It's a real b****... 
Re: Windows Update includes the patch 
Nope, it seems those of us with 98 need not worry! 
This has been bizarre 
