In a message dated 9/22/2003 9:44:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, alienkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: it sounds like you have the blaster worm go to network connections right click on your connection go to properties click on advanced button on the top right put a check mark in the box protect my computer XPs firewall then run dont walk to microsoft.com and get the patch Hello, I did all this yesterday. And ran Symantec's worm removal. Both NAV and the tool said I didn't have the worm. I thought that worm shut you down regardless if you were online or not? The laptop does not reboot when not online. HB To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk