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>> In the end I reinstalled Windows XP.
>
> The (newbie) answer to all problems.
Well, if your PC reboots every 20 seconds, what else can you
realistically do? There isn't sufficient time to install any tools or
run any kind of diagnostics.
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48970aa6$1@news.povray.org...
> Well, if your PC reboots every 20 seconds, what else can you realistically
> do? There isn't sufficient time to install any tools or run any kind of
> diagnostics.
??? If you were able to find and download the patch from your mum's PC then
you could also find instructions on the internet about 1) how to stop the
rebooting before it happened and 2) to get rid of the worm without
reinstalling.
G.
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>> Well, if your PC reboots every 20 seconds, what else can you realistically
>> do? There isn't sufficient time to install any tools or run any kind of
>> diagnostics.
>
> ??? If you were able to find and download the patch from your mum's PC then
> you could also find instructions on the internet about 1) how to stop the
> rebooting before it happened and 2) to get rid of the worm without
> reinstalling.
Well by the time I got that far I'd already reinstalled twice.
Reinstalling is probably simpler than following a tricky sequence of
registry edits and hoping that you don't accidentally break your PC and
that all traces of the virus are actually gone...
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:02:40 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Anybody else here have any interesting virus experiences?
I was banging my head against the wall, working to figure out why our web page kept
crashing, when Code Red was announced. That was quite a fun-filled few days.
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489713b0@news.povray.org...
> Reinstalling is probably simpler than following a tricky sequence of
> registry edits and hoping that you don't accidentally break your PC and
> that all traces of the virus are actually gone...
What registry edits? All you had to do to prevent the reboot was to go to
the command line and type "shutdown -a" (or go the control panel and perform
a similar task). It took a couple of seconds and the trick was explained on
every AV site.
G.
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>> Reinstalling is probably simpler than following a tricky sequence of
>> registry edits and hoping that you don't accidentally break your PC and
>> that all traces of the virus are actually gone...
>
> What registry edits? All you had to do to prevent the reboot was to go to
> the command line and type "shutdown -a" (or go the control panel and perform
> a similar task). It took a couple of seconds and the trick was explained on
> every AV site.
That stops the machine rebooting, but it still doesn't remove the virus.
Personally, I just assumed that "fatal system error" means that there's
no way to prevent the system from being rebooted. I don't recall the
McAfee site containing any instructions on how to prevent this, or even
suggestion that it is *possible* to prevent this. Oh dear, I must be a
really stupid n00b for not knowing something so "obvious". Get off my case!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
>
> Anything interesting?
>
Not particularly. It was actually rather poorly written iirc, used CDO,
I believe to read the address book and propagate itself.
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48971da1$1@news.povray.org...
> That stops the machine rebooting, but it still doesn't remove the virus.
The point is that it gave you plenty of time to install whatever blaster
removal tool you had downloaded from the AV makers.
>Oh dear, I must be a really stupid n00b for not knowing something so
>"obvious". Get off my case!
The noobishness is not about not knowing something. It's about not imagining
that there are other people out there with the same problem and possibly
solutions that work, all of this a Google search away. To be fair, it took
me a while to get this, as I'm old enough to be from a generation where it
was much more difficult to learn things on the fly...
G
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Invisible wrote:
> Anybody else here have any interesting virus experiences?
I remember the fire drills going on when the Morris Worm got out, and
the Christmas Tree whatever-it-was. It was lots of fun not having
internet access for a few days.
Almost as much fun as when they blow up a train tank car full of acid in
the same tunnel that most of the east-west fibers run through in the
USA. That one took a couple weeks to fix.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Ever notice how people in a zombie movie never already know how to
kill zombies? Ask 100 random people in America how to kill someone
who has reanimated from the dead in a secret viral weapons lab,
and how many do you think already know you need a head-shot?
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:48971da1$1@news.povray.org...
> Oh dear, I must be a really stupid n00b for not knowing something so
> "obvious". Get off my case!
LOL! N00b! ;)
Just kidding mate, but there are internet cafe's too. Been there, done
that with my '98 machine... :/
(Hey, quick thought: how about going to an internet cafe to maybe meet
someone? You know, you could give them some *specialist* info if they seem
to be having a problem?)
~Steve~
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> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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