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Well this one is beating me. I have a worm, not a virus I think. Let me tell you how bad. I got it a couple weeks ago. I downloaded all kinds of fixes from symantec, the blaster, sasser, bug bomb and more. But I still get a pop up window that tells me something was done wrong and file lsass.exe down in windows must restart in 60 seconds. I have norton 2003 and it was updated, but would not catch it.....so I put in a totally new hard drive today with windows xp pro ( I had just planned on formating my other drive clean ) and 2 minutes after I got to my desktop, BOOM, there it is again. What worm is this and where is it at on my system?
I cant get the updates, because I am on a dial up. The updates I need are over 50Meg and takes a few hours for me to download. This worm will pop up about every 1/2 hour.
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Go here for the Blaster patch from Microsoft...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en
Go here for the Sasser patch from Microsoft...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3549EA9E-DA3F-43B9-A4F1-AF243B6168F3&displaylang=en
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MS has the updates for Win 98 ME & XP on a free CD. You will have to wait up to 5 or 6 weeks if you wanted one. You may know someone who has already got this disc from MS.
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Saser virus is hiting ever 5 mins if you are connected to Inet on a un update XP,2000Pro. worked on a computer last week new dell hard drive had fail and dell came to the home and put in a new one, no updates.
McAfee Stringer found 1804 viruses. System had Norton 2003, and McAfee 8 both.
You have to have a fire wall turned on to stop the viruses if you are trying to connect to Inet. The build in XP fire wall should help.
If you can get a firend to download patch it and put it on a CD, you could get your updates on that way. patch it is 200+ meg.
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Go to Microsofts site as if you were going to download the updates, scan and find out what updates you need. Write this down, then go to a computer with a decent internet connection and download the updates, burn on to a cd. Maybe better then waiting for a Microsoft CD. Also, try a combination of a firewall, antivirus, ad aware, spybot, and updates to combate viruses. You will have a pretty secure machine with these installed. (sounds like blaster to me) Try turning off system restore (right click on my computer) and reboot into safe mode (tap F8 on reboot) then run scanners.
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You have the Sasser Worm .
1.Disconnect the cable from the internet.
2.Startup in Safe Mode.
3.Delete the file AVSERVE.exe from your WINDOWS directory (typically c:\windows or c:\winnt)
4. Open Regedit , Start > Run > type, REGEDIT , press enter. Browse to this key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\RunIn the righthand pane , highlight the value AVSERVE.exe , and delete it. Exit Regedit.
5. Open Control Panel > Network Connections > right click in the right pane your Local Area Connection , select properties , select Advanced tab, check the box for Internet Connection Firewall, click OK.
6. Reconnect the internet cable. Restart in normal mode .
You should now be able to connect to Windows Update from your desktop. The XP firewall should protect you till your finished. Do not do anything else till your done with Windows Update.
7. Then , go here http://www.free-av.com/index.htm , download and install , update and scan your system.
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