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08-13-2003, 06:19 AM
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blaster worm virus aaaaaaaaargh
 aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh that stupid worm virus got my computer it would shut it down as soon as i connected finally seemed to have gotten rid of it .anyone else get a really bad version
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08-13-2003, 07:33 AM
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It shut down my company (thousands of people) on Monday afternoon. We applied a patch from Microsoft and it seems to be okay.
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08-13-2003, 09:51 AM
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what does it do exactly?
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08-13-2003, 10:13 AM
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It seems mostly to affect Windows XP. A box pops up on your screen saying that your PC will shut down in 59 seconds, which is what then happens. |
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08-13-2003, 10:21 AM
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eek.. i wonder why people think this stuff up... thats horrible!
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08-13-2003, 10:56 AM
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 I would be online for no longer than two minutes when the 59-second countdown kicked in...I would sometimes get an error about a Generic Win32 thing or whatever it was... Crystal (MsConanOBrien) got it too and she made a thread about it that went for nearly 10 pages...it's somewhere down this page or on the 2nd page. For me, the Generic Win32 thing would come up first (sometimes, it didn't come up all the time) and THEN the RPC shutdown error would come up. This is what the RPC shutdown looked like...  I first got it at 1:15AM on August 11th AND IT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME.  It's not a very happy thing to look at, at 1 in the morning. 
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08-13-2003, 11:18 AM
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im sorry!!!
that must stink.. i have windows 98 so i dont really have to worry about it much!
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08-13-2003, 11:34 AM
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i got it too, so i downloaded the patch and it hasnt appeared since....here's hoping!
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08-13-2003, 01:47 PM
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Guys shoulda had the patch in the first place  Its also on saturday gonna try to do a Denial Of Service (DOS) Attack on Windowsupdate.com to try to bring it down... |
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08-13-2003, 07:16 PM
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2 more versions of this worm have been discovered according to symantec...
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08-13-2003, 07:18 PM
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i have windows XP and nothings happend to my computer and i didnt download any patch.
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08-13-2003, 08:19 PM
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08-13-2003, 08:32 PM
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i'm aggressive just one thought of closing up you got me stressing, incessantly pressing the issue cause every moment gone you know I miss you :::::::::::::::::::::::::: this time please someone come and rescue me cause you on my mind it's got me losing it |
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08-13-2003, 09:30 PM
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Mine did it non-stop the other day, but the last two days it hasn't happened to my computer, and I didn't download a patch.
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Everything is fine. |
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08-15-2003, 11:18 AM
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This worm is supposed to when the clocks reach saturday, on each computer send out 50 packets a second to www.windowsupdate.com in an attempt to crash it so people can't get the patches.... Its infected over 300,000 computers... so that would be a lot of packets sent to the windowsupdate.com
Its already Saturday in Russia.. and well I can't get onto windowsupdate.com.... Is it being down related to this? Id assume so |
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