Originally posted by appyday
RoseRed..is this the MSBLAST.exe I got? anyway I was told it is a worm not a virus...virus detection will not catch it. It is NOT spread by emails...it was easy to get off the computer and did no damage..good luck
Originally posted by Kain99
If you download the patches from Microsoft you should be O.K. Just to be safe make sure your virus definitions are up to date too. You don't want anything nasty from work following you home.
You're both on the right track...
If you have windows 98 or lower, you're in the clear. This affects NT based computers like NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 (all versions and strands of each respective OS)
The best practice for this particular worm is to download Symantec's removal too first,
From the Symantec Responce Center , reboot without being online (unplug the freggin cable even), and then apply the MS patch
Available here from MS , then reboot and run the symantec checker again before plugging back into the net.
The reason for this is, if you apply the MS patch first, it creates a system restore point, that actually ARCHIVES the virus. Use the symantec tool to remove the virus first, then after rebooting, apply the MS patch. Have both downloaded before starting the process.
FYI
The latest Symantec AV Defs will catch the worm. The worm populates via network traffic, not through files saved do disk. (Thats why its a worm and not a virus).
