Hello, you may have, well in fact I doubt you did but anyway, noticed I've not been around much the past week. My family PC has been suffering from that Bloody Blaster Worm thing for the past week see. Now I hear it is meant to make you PC reset constantly, yes? Well it never did that... It just made a few web pages appear totally blank, including Hotmail, so none of us could check our mail; made cut and paste not work; made the contents of the Recyle bin and control panel appear in the information strip rather than the main body of the windows explorer; and various other stuff... One thing that wouldn't work was the part of our virus check that updated the virus database, so we couldn't find any virus using it. Eventually we found out if we reset the PC in debugging mode, it stopped the problems... for a full five minutes, maybe less. However this proved enough time to download the new virus database, and we indentified the virus and infected file, but it couldn't move it to it's virus vault. So I found it, and deleted it, which turned out to be a bit rash, as apparently this makes the thing worse, till you use the Microsoft security update. For which I needed to download another patch for Windows 2000.<br>Needless to say, I do not like the people behind said virus, even if it didn't work the way it was meant to...<br><br>So I would like to find them, beat them to a pulp using a golf club, run over their shins in a heavy car, and send 1500 volts coursing through them.<br><br>Anyone else catch it, and more than a little peved by it?<br>If you are still suffering, then <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp" target="top">Go Here.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>What would you like to do to these people? <p> I have Returned from the Darkness and I am now RED Kagato TEG! But a Red Kagato doesn't make much sense, so I'll be Arucard TKAV instead... <br><br>"I was doing a Spanish Chineseman speaking French"-My Brother.<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://praiseyoudotcom.homestead.com/files/Shad-DT.JPG" style="height:170;width:300;"alt="Shadow Mask.. "/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br>Can anyone translate this?<br>"que gacho dibujo, enser</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

Heh, heh. Now you know why I'm still running Windows '98. <p></p><i></i>

..... Um, isn't 98 also a Windows effected by it?<br>"Your computer is not vulnerable to the Blaster worm if either of these conditions apply to you:<br><br>If you are using Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), or Windows Millennium (Windows Me). <br>"<br><br>Nope, you are safe.... Wait, this means if I was using my other PC online right now, I'ld be safe...<br><br>I find it weird that it gets Professional, but not the more common Me.... <p> I have Returned from the Darkness and I am now RED Kagato TEG! But a Red Kagato doesn't make much sense, so I'll be Arucard TKAV instead... <br><br>"I was doing a Spanish Chineseman speaking French"-My Brother.<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://praiseyoudotcom.homestead.com/files/Shad-DT.JPG" style="height:170;width:300;"alt="Shadow Mask.. "/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br>Can anyone translate this?<br>"que gacho dibujo, enser</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

Bah, I installed XP only a few weeks ago (well my Dad did... Blast him!)... <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">Removed for GoE<br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>"He's an Ass Man!"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

I also was infected by the blaster worm (WinXP). I really wanted to send the people who made it to the seventh layer of hell (or someplace like that, I haven't actually read Dante's Inferno...let's just say somewhere really really really unpleasant). :P <br><br>Thanks to some help I received from Koko, the blaster was eliminated from my computer quite easily. It's weird that it didn't make your computer restart Kagato. That's generally what it's suppossed to do, and that was the case with my computer...it would run for awhile, then an error message would come up saying the system needed to shutdown, and then my computer would restart itself. Anyway, the key is to download the Microsoft patch. Once that was done, there was no problem. Also, I use Norton Anti-virus (Symantec), which, after I updated it, caught and removed the blaster worm. Additionally, Symantec has a more thorough blaster worm removal tool that's downloadable from their site (I'm not sure if it's available only to Norton-antivirus users), which scans your whole system and eliminates all trace of the blast worm. Happily, my system is now worm free, and luckily with a minimum of effort and no real damage done.<br><br>ZL <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.buncha-network.com/zl/R3K.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.buncha-network.com/zl/ZLstrat.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <!--EZCODE BR START--><br /><!--EZCODE BR END--><br>Empires wax and wane; states cleave asunder and coalesce. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as the fire, steady as the mountain."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> A banner used by the Takeda clan of Kai (Sengoku Jidai era). </p><i></i>

That sounds like something that would drive me nuts. :P I'm glad I never upgraded from WinME. Even though it creates its own inner viruses and bugs to harrass me with... XD "Cannot find disk drive" my butt! <br>Anyway, it seems like since it came out there have been huge glitches with WinXP. I mean, there's even an emoticon in its name to help you understand exactly how it'll make you feel! Hahaha, no, but it *does* have some nice features. Hopefully Microsoft can build on it and fix the flaws for its next version. I have a friend with WinXP, though, who is constantly fighting it out with a virus of some kind. It's almost as if Windows just sits there sucking them in like some weird aquatic animal. <br>Eh... and I don't understand what makes people want to hack or infect other people's computers, really. Just an odd mentality to have, I suppose. What good does causing someone they don't even know a whole bunch of grief do for them? It's kind of sick, actually. Although I think it's awesome if someone knows enough about computers and how they work to do these things, they ought to use their powers for good and not evil. XD Yes. <p></p><i></i>

ya'know, now that i think about, i can't recalled having ever read the words "affects win98" anywhere... hmm... <p></p><i></i>

That's because it doesn't affect '98. I checked Microsoft's site right away just to make sure. Honestly, things like this worm crap are one of the reasons I've never updated. <p></p><i></i>

Are you implying that 98 is more stable than XP? <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">blut krieg sieg</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

if it wasn't before, it is now<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :evil --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/devil.gif ALT=":evil"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

No, I'm implying that they all suck- so why bother to update every other year. <p></p><i></i>

We tend to only update when we get a new PC, i.e., when it is provided with said new PC.... Or someone gives us a copy of the update for free.... <p>__________________<br> I have Returned from the Darkness and I am now RED Kagato TEG! But a Red Kagato doesn't make much sense, so I'll be Arucard TKAV instead... <br><br>"I was doing a Spanish Chineseman speaking French"-My Brother.<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://praiseyoudotcom.homestead.com/files/Shad-DT.JPG" style="height:170;width:300;"alt="Shadow Mask.. "/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"> http://icomix.com/maze/comicpage/browse.php?index=186 <br>I'm afraid of Large Sacks of Money too...<br></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

If it sucks, then use something that's better :) <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">blut krieg sieg</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

Actually, Windows XP has been fine for me...up until the blaster worm. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :p --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>I use both Win98 and XP. XP is more stable overall, but Win98 isn't as bad (so I've heard) as oh...WinME.<br><br>ZL <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://webpages.charter.net/korichan/zl/R3K.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://webpages.charter.net/korichan/zl/ZLstrat.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <!--EZCODE BR START--><br /><!--EZCODE BR END--><br>Empires wax and wane; states cleave asunder and coalesce. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as the fire, steady as the mountain."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> A banner used by the Takeda clan of Kai (Sengoku Jidai era). </p><i></i>

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