msblast.exe

[TekDragon]

ATTENTION EVERYONE:

Go to start menu, search, all files and folders, then type in "msblast". Click search.

If the file shows up, restart your computer.

Press F-8 every second or so while rebooting. A new screen will come up asking what you want to do.

Go to "Safe Mode" (not Safe Mode w command prombt or networking)

Do the search again for msblast. Delete ANY files (i had 2), and make SURE you get the .exe file.

Empty your recycle bin, then restart normally.

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On Saturday this MSBlast worm is going to attack Microsoft and who knows what else. Delete it and help out Microsoft who gives you such great things like Windows and Xbox.

Do it for yourself too, as it is slowing down your data flow for your internet connection and causing latency issues.

[Lonehunter]

I've all ready done that

[Lise]

I'm clean. No surprise - I'm really freaking careful. I'm staying off of most major sites until Sunday at least.

[Hamma]

Comcast sent out a nice email on how to clean it too. At least they are good for something

[Spider]

I'm clean :o I love mcafee and Linux!

(Linux is my ''router'' I got another machine and my internet connection goes thru it then goes to my Windows OS. so I'm clean )

[Lexington_Steele]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Khronos]

im clean too, although both my brother's computer had the worm...

dont ask me how i didnt get it cause i dunno

[Sputty]

Thanks for the help. I'm clean though

[Onizuka]

Ive been clean for a while.

[TekDragon]

Originally posted by Onizuka
Ive been clean for a while.

In just about every way possible... dork..

[Squick]

Originally posted by Hamma
Comcast sent out a nice email on how to clean it too. At least they are good for something

I did not even know I had a comcast e-mail account for the first two years I had a cable modem... When I finally logged onto it I had well over 1,000 spam messages. That means that Comcast is selling their address list, since there is no way I would have got myself on any lists since I did not even know what the address was...

Squick

[Onizuka]

Originally posted by TekDragon
In just about every way possible... dork..

unlike you and your mouth, whore.

(cant be nice for one second lol tek, you were on a roll with this being nice thing)

EDIT: im just kidding. jp, jk whatever. unlike you which is sad

[Jaged]

Leave the bug on your comp. Let Microsoft burn.

[Everay]

yea, i think its sorta cool worm, if it didnt take over your computer like i hear it does, i wouldnt mind it, say if it deleted itself after sunday, which is when the DOS attack takes place, against microsoft update, anyways, im clean

[TekDragon]

What you kiddies need to realize is that the ENTIRE WORLD dodged a bullet with this one.

The maker of this worm discovered an exploit that could have, potentially, allowed him to wreck the global economy.

Whoever he was, he either had a conciounce.. or he was simply a poor hacker.

If this virus had worked at its FULL potential it would NOT have allowed windows to detect it (thereby shutting the PC down). Instead it would have nested itself and sat quitely for a week, then activated. A properly coded worm could have deleted every file on your PC.

Can you imagine what the result of this would have been? The US, Europe, China, Japan, India, etc, etc would all have been reduced to third world countries for months. Power facilties would be out, banks accounts would be wiped out, police records destroyed... etc.. etc..

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Do NOT take a "haha, let Microsoft burn" approach. If Microsoft goes down.. we ALL go down. I mean the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET. You might not believe it, but its true.