-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Blaster-virus.
- From: "Sylviavandewall" <pvdwall@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:01:05 +0200
Yes Kat, that is what I did but the page of Microsoft stays blanc, I cant
get it.
Sylvia.
> Well, you're going to continue to get it if you don't do the updates to
> Windows that will prevent getting reinfected every five minutes. A
> virus app is only going to find it every time and tell you about it not
> prevent it from getting there in the first place. A removal tool only
> removes it. It does not block it's reoccurrence. If the hole still
> exists in your operating system, then like Ahhnold, it "will be back".
>
> First remove the virus using the removal tool you have. The virus
> needs to be gone before you may be able to reach Windows Update. Then
> immediately go to Windows Update and apply the patch, in fact ALL
> critical and security updates, before it gets infected again. Then make
> sure your virus software is set to update new definitions *daily* and to
> delete if it cannot fix an infected file. Kat
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 12:13 PM
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> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Blaster-virus.
>
>
> Hi Troth,
> It's called "Lovesan.A" and we downloaded a antivirusprogram now.
> Everytime we went on-line the
> antirvirusprogram said she had that virus. Also she can't go into a
> lot
> of sites when she goes on-line
> and the site from microsoft with the update for the patch stays
> blanc.
> She has Windows-XP.
> Sylvia.
>
>
> > How do you know the virus is still there? What's finding it, and
> what's
> the exact name they're showing for the virus. There are a few variations
> that work differently.
> > ---Troth
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> > Already for two days I'm working on my daughters computer to get
> rid
> of the "Blaster-virus". I used the tool from Symantec in safe mode with
> System Restore disabled and than when I do a virusscan it says the virus
> is
> gone but than it's back on her computer. I just don't know what to do
> anymore, I'm not a technical person on the computer and me daughter is
> worse
> than I am. She didn't even have a antivirusprogram because, as she said:
> I'm
> almost never on-line. Great, not very smart but the damage is done and I
> would love to help her but more than the tool for it from Symantic I
> don't
> know. Does anyone have some advice for me what to do.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Sylvia.......Holland.
>
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