bussie

i know this has nothing to do with migrating but this is being found on alot of pc's

look at this to sort it out

the virus is called worm_msblast

it makes your pc shut down after a while of it being on

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...WORM_MSBLAST.A

Gra.B

Think a few of us on here have had that one, see the 'spyware' thread. Pain in the arse... not knowing much about these things I've been worrying all day in case I lost everything!

All sorted now though, do you know where it might've come from?

Gra..

bussie

no sorry i found it on my mothers pc today
but i couldnt get on the net to find out how to turn it off as it kept shutting down the pc

i didnt know it was on another thread so sorry if your reading this twice

Gra.B

Oh...so I assume it's not from that porn site I've been frequenting!

earlswood

Hubby just spent the day getting rid of this from 5 of our servers and protecting the other 60+. What a nightmare!!

Here's what you do:

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS03-026.asp

and download the hotfix relevant to your operating system.

Then install the hotfix and reboot your PC. When you PC comes back up go to c:\winnt\system32 and find a file called msblast.exe (delete this file and remove it from your recycle bin). Reboot your PC again and go to http://securityresponse.symantec.com...r/FixBlast.exe
and download this tool.

Run the tool and it will scan your PC.

Hope this helps.

sully4441

I picked up this virus the other day. What a nightmare. Spoke to a friend of mine, a genuine pc guru - plus photographic memory et al, and he had been caught out too. Downloaded a killer from the Mcafee site - it worked thank god - friends hard drive cabbaged! Take care - use a firewall - have reinstated mine after this. Spent whole day formating. deleting and reinstalling etc. Didn't lose vital docs due to a pure fluke of backing up a few days ago. Lms