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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:16 PM
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I got the LoveSan, Blaster, or MSBlaster virus
What do I do now? I am no computer genius. I have windows XP for hoome.

Thanks.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:17 PM
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1. go to Bartcop
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 03:18 PM by demnan
and follow Mr. Perkel's very helpful suggestions.

Once you have gotten rid of the virus update your virus protection and your patches. Although the windows update site doesn't seem to be available.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:21 PM
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2. Thanks
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Mistress Quickly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:27 PM
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3. go to
www.norton.com

and follow the 3 steps on the left side of the home page.

You need to download and install the Windows Critical Update Patch to keep from getting it again. Go to microsoft.com and keep trying to get the patch.

After you have taken care of all of this, set your WINxp to do automatic updates:
start > control panel > system > automatic updates

Then you will know when there are updates, especially the critical ones.
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:46 PM
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4. Symantec info...
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 05:05 PM
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5. One step further
Here's the removal tool:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 06:19 PM
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6. Thanks for the help
I hope I can do some of these things before my computer shuts down. It stays up only for a few miniutes then I get the error message.
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