Oh No! Got that msblast virus again!!!
28 October 2003, 03:09 PM
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Weird though, this time in not such a bad way (i.e it takes 5 minutes before it brings up the message and reboots my pc this time).
Anyone got the link to the patch or any fixes?
Anyone got the link to the patch or any fixes?
28 October 2003, 03:34 PM
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I did, but last night I had a few problems, so I ran disk defragmenter and this morning this comes back. It also seems like it clear all my temprary internet files/cookies too??
28 October 2003, 03:46 PM
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defragmenting disks does not solve problems nor will it remove patches. It merely reorganises disk clusters to be more accessable.
There is some other underlying issue here.
More info could help us get to the bottom of it.
There is some other underlying issue here.
More info could help us get to the bottom of it.
28 October 2003, 03:51 PM
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Sounds more like HD corruption. If its XP/2000 go to the recovery console and to a chkdsk/p, this will take ages but sorted a similar problem I had last week after a failed defrag, PC rebooting all the time, deffo was a HD prob as this cured it.
28 October 2003, 03:55 PM
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Just to add, there were 2 patches made available. In true microsoft style, they farked the first one up and it didn't fully patch the overflow issue in the RPC. New variants of blaster were released to exploit this.
If you want to be trusting and drop me your IP, I can check whether your still vunerable to it by simply overflowing and calling a reply.....(no software i.e. worms will be transfered, it just tests the exploit the worm used)
I wouldn't expect you to want to go down this route, it was just a thought. If not, get on M$'s site and grab the tool to test yourself.
Just to end this on a note, were not saying your definitely infected by blaster here....it might be a software bug, it might be some hardware default (pretty unlikely though) or it might be a virus or worm....(doubtfull though, I haven't heard of anything recent that behaves like this.
Look out for the flea virus though....it hasen't taken off as yet, but has the potential to do so.
If you want to be trusting and drop me your IP, I can check whether your still vunerable to it by simply overflowing and calling a reply.....(no software i.e. worms will be transfered, it just tests the exploit the worm used)
I wouldn't expect you to want to go down this route, it was just a thought. If not, get on M$'s site and grab the tool to test yourself.
Just to end this on a note, were not saying your definitely infected by blaster here....it might be a software bug, it might be some hardware default (pretty unlikely though) or it might be a virus or worm....(doubtfull though, I haven't heard of anything recent that behaves like this.
Look out for the flea virus though....it hasen't taken off as yet, but has the potential to do so.
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28 October 2003, 04:31 PM
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Excellent, cheers for the replies guys. At the moment I am running Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/).This is searching my hd for any 32 viruses/worms/trojans etc.
I'll let you know anything that happens
I'll let you know anything that happens
28 October 2003, 04:50 PM
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flea http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/flea.shtml
I don't know how well this was coded as I don't have a copy of it. It was just a tip off I heard on the wires. Lets wait and see how good the coder was.
I don't know how well this was coded as I don't have a copy of it. It was just a tip off I heard on the wires. Lets wait and see how good the coder was.
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