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W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:36 am
by rwfromxenon
What a freakin nightmare. Download speeds have currently gone from about 70 kb/s to <= 10 kb/s.
>:( >:( >:( >:(
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:27 pm
by gpm
My roomie got hit with this last night, along with about 5 other virii types.. 36 infections total...
Even after cleaning/quarantining the infected files, his computer spontaneously restarts itself... let me tell you it was rather grating hearing that annoying XP jingle every half an hour... ;D
He's so lazy he just reinstalls XP whenever he gets a problem or when XP doesn't work the way he wants it to... I've lived with him for 2 months and he's already gone through 3 reinstallations... at least he pays the rent...
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:46 am
by Zonkie
I've been through it already as well... although it was rather painless here, Monday night my computer suddenly told me I had 60 seconds til it restarted, and that went on for while. But I downloaded the patch and the removal program, and now everything is back to normal ;D
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:08 am
by df
mine stopped at the router/firewall.. and zonealarm pro wouldnt have let it through either.
you guys should install the free zonalarm (non pro) version.
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:25 am
by Eero Ränik
My PC-cillin 2002 didn't let it through either...
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:16 am
by rwfromxenon
Adam wrote:
My roomie got hit with this last night, along with about 5 other virii types.. 36 infections total...
Even after cleaning/quarantining the infected files, his computer spontaneously restarts itself... let me tell you it was rather grating hearing that annoying XP jingle every half an hour... ;D
He's so lazy he just reinstalls XP whenever he gets a problem or when XP doesn't work the way he wants it to... I've lived with him for 2 months and he's already gone through 3 reinstallations... at least he pays the rent...
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Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 1:40 am
by yugi-moto
df wrote:
mine stopped at the router/firewall.. and zonealarm pro wouldnt have let it through either.
you guys should install the free zonalarm (non pro) version.
YEAH, zonealarm rules
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 12:09 am
by Andrew_Baker
No... Linux Rules!
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:27 am
by Joey
my dad had a trial of zone alarm pro, but i dont think i could play games online with my friends when they tried connecting to me, and i couldnt direct connect and stuff on aim. if i could get rid of that i would tell my dad to download it.
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:51 pm
by Eero Ränik
You can configure it very easily...
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:29 am
by Joey
thank you very much eero. that explains how i can configure it. ::) lol. i dont even know if hes gonna get it. he has this ad aware thing. i dont know. as long as i can go on the pc.
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:43 am
by Zonkie
Hmm, thanks for the tip. I just installed zonealarm, let's see how it works out in practice
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Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:00 am
by Eero Ränik
Ad-aware isn't firewall, it removes adware and spyware from your hard drives and programs. They are two different things.
And sorry, I don't use ZoneAlarm myself, so I can't say how to exactly configure it... Under settings maybe?
Re:W32.Blaster.Worm
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:32 am
by Joey
i know adaware isnt a firewall and my dad is most likely not getting zone alarm anyway.