heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cian]

ATTENTION ALL........ITS A VIRUS........check out the link below
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1831.html

erk, double posting again... should read the whole thread before replying

ah yes, that one... it causes tbe error by whamming svchost out of memory. Remove svchost from memory yourself and the same thing happens...

I occasionally help very stupid computer science post grads in the college here in return for using their 45Mbits/sec net access, but thankfully most of them use Linux and while the virii are nastier, they're a hell of a lot rarer....

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

STILL doing it

I'm upgrading from the start menu as we speak, let's hope it works

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

So is it a virus, update or what? What do I do?

 

[Happy Seagull]

http://microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

Downloading this patch should cure your problems. And anyone yet to get this virus should also install just in case.

 

[BrightonFoxDave]

Looks like it's a worm then.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Click on the link here -> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1831.html
It's got patches for Win2K and XP.

Antivirus software wouldn't have detected this yesterday as it only appeared yesterday. You would need to be subscribed to an IT related mailing list to have heard about this before it could hit you. I'm off work at the momet and avoiding work related mails like the plague, so sorry I couldn't help more. Were I at work yesterday, you may well hae got the full SP yesterday.

However, there was already an MS patch to combat the hole the worm exploits, so if you were patched up as per MS03-026, then you're hot affected by this at all!

 

[Razi]

I'm impressed that this thread made 3 pages without any real details on the problem.

It's a new virus that started hitting the globe over the last couple of days. It's called the W32.Blaster.Worm and attempts to gain access to your PC through a "port" on your PC, which is like a gateway to the internet. Your PC has 65536 of these ports (I think) but most are secure. Every now and then, people find another way to exploit Windows to obtain access via such a port.

If this is happening to you, or anyone you know, do this:

Download the virus removal tool:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe

When complete, it should prompt you to download the Microsoft update to fix the problem. Those people with XP will most likely be running the 32-bit version.

The Microsoft website with the updates is:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

More info on the virus is available here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

 

[BrightonFoxDave]

That's cos no-one who's PC is rebooting every few minutes or whatever it is gives a damn what a port is, but just how to stop it happening! There's TCP and UDP ports, and cleverly, they can have the same numbers, which is just more confusing.

The link originally posted by Tazman tells everyone all they really need to know.

Still, fair play for posting the link to the removal tool, that'll definitely help..

 

[JEM]

What if you have a hooky copy of xp can you still do the updates without alerting microsoft to your non payment?

Not that I have such a thing just wondering!

Yes, you can.


Anyone know the difference between XP 32 bit and XP 64 bit? Is 32 bit XP Home and 64 bit XP Pro?

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Downloaded the patch, seems to be working.........so far!

Cheers guys

 

[Razi]

Both XP Pro and XP Home are 32-bit. I think the 64-bit is actually still in beta, and is only for Itanium or Itanium 2 processors. Certainly most people on this board will be using 32-bit versions of XP.

 

[BrightonFoxDave]

All the copies of XP we have here on this board are gonna be 32 bit versions. XP Home and XP Pro are 32 bit and the Win2003 Server line comes in 32 and now 64 bit versions.

64 bit is totally new and is a Processor thing. Big datacentres etc will run 64 bit multi processors for their database / data warehouse products and so on.

The old Spectrum / Amiga / Atari were 8 bit.
Early PC's were 16 bit.


To the question about Hooky copies of XP:
Windows XP service pack 1 (SP1) will not install on top of copies of XP installed using certain product keys - it may only be one in fact. MS realised that there hadn't been many product keys posted on the net and put code in SP1 to stop those installs upgrading. But since SP1 is a collection of (a lot of) previously released hotfixes, you could get by without it, or you could change your product key if you happened to be affected and SP1 will then install