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Thread ID: 39871 2003-11-20 09:15:00 B****ed Blaster worm decimating usage on XP mcjelly (3439) Press F1
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193365 2003-11-20 09:15:00 How can you get rid of this cursed thing if your computor reboots every minute in windows??? All the files I've downloaded only run under XP..nothing in dos... 1 minute ain't enough to stop it. I only see it briefly under 'processes' ... not quick enough to 'stop process' is there a virus boot program??? I suspect it is also on my 2nd hard drive as well (Disconnected) I've checked out Microsoft site not much help if you only have 1 Minute!!!! mcjelly (3439)
193366 2003-11-20 09:21:00 most antivirus sites give quite good instructions.

one another non-infected pc download the antivirus tool and the patch from ms, burn em to cd. take the cd to your pc and run the antivirus, then install the patch.
tweak'e (174)
193367 2003-11-20 09:24:00 You could try .......

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Thomas (1820)
193368 2003-11-20 09:26:00 Uh...Turn on your inbuilt windows firewall.

Then manually delete the worms files.(from msconfig then do a system search for blast,do a search oif the reg as well)

Then hit windows update site and download the fix.
metla (154)
193369 2003-11-20 09:28:00 Go here (securityresponse.symantec.com) and download the removal tool using another computer and save to a floppy and then install and run on the infected system Jim B (153)
193370 2003-11-20 09:30:00 thanks but it won't let me!!! Once you log on 'Wham' blaster error message and firewall no can turn on. mcjelly (3439)
193371 2003-11-20 09:33:00 Thanks got that... but doesn't work under bootup disk and 1 minute under XP ain' t enough to shut the bugger down. mcjelly (3439)
193372 2003-11-20 09:56:00 from trend micro

This procedure terminates the running malware process from memory.

1. Open Windows Task Manager, press
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, and click the Processes tab.
2. In the list of running programs, locate the process:
MSBLAST.EXE
3. Select the malware process, then press the End Process button.
4. To check if the malware process has been terminated, close Task Manager, and then open it again.
5. Close Task Manager.

there is another method of stop your pc from shutting down im still searching for it will post back as soon as I find it
beama (111)
193373 2003-11-20 10:02:00 found it

Shutdown -a

Click Start|Run and enter the command. You can also delay the shutdown by turning the clock one hour back. You have to turn the clock back when the shutdown message appears. This is especially useful on the NT/2000 platforms where the shutdown command is not available.

copy and pasted from
www.norman.com
beama (111)
193374 2003-11-20 10:13:00 My experience with msblaster is it only shuts down in 1 min when your on the internet. I have contracted msblaster 3 times because i play with lots of new comps which have not been patched.
the way i have learnt to deal with it is:
when comp first starts up run msconfig i.e
start
run
type msconfig ok
go to startup tab
uncheck msblaster.exe
you may also see a line that says run=xxx
uncheck it also.
restart the comp.
search using windows search for msblast
delete it.
make sure a firewall is on even the winxp one.
go to windows update and apply the kb823980 security fix/patch.
that should be right as rain and if you wish search for msblaster fix or fixblaster in google and run the tool it will rid you of any blaster probs if left.
goodluck and i hope this works for you
sandyb (3901)
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