praxis22 opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 81 posts
ph0enixx posted Wed, 13 August 2003 at 12:33 AM
I'm not sure if anyone is still having the problem but I thought I would share my expeirence with the virus. I'm not 100% positive where I got the actual virus from -- seeing as how I usually don't open shady emails, and can't recall opening a strange email but I can recall getting one that I threw away. It was from the "System Admin" and subject was "Delay in E-Mail" or something of that nature. I waited a day to trash it because I thought it was junk, not virus. And to my knowledge had no attachments. But, again, I'm not sure this was the source of the problem. Anyway, I shrugged off the first of the RPS errors feeling it was just computer problems. But after reading this post in the 5 minute interval I had before my computer shut down, it seemed as if I had the problem. I ran symantec (took a long time, had to search through a lot of files) and symantec caught nothing yet I still had the virus. I went to the Microsoft page noted in the first of posts and downloaded the patch. Then I went and checked my task manager, and sure enough "msblast.exe" was residing. I ended the process, deleted it from my C:/Windows/System folder. I also changed the values or whatever that was noted for me to do. I'll post the link I followed in a couple secs. So far, it seems ok. knock on wood :) Hope you get your systems cleaned.
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