[RC] Bad worm that I got and so did my daughter Jocelyn on a brand new Dell she just got today! - Typef
Hey everyone ...
I'm sending this out to everyone because time is of
the essense on this. If you have Windows 2000, XP or NT4 (and there may be a
couple of others) you need to go get this patch before you can't. It fixed
Jocelyn's computer.
If the link to the page at the bottom splits into
two lines, make sure you type the 03-026.asp after you copy and paste the first
line as it won't pick it up if you copy and paste both lines into your web
browser.
Here you
go, I'm just doing a copy/paste of what I sent others. Remember, when
it's time to type you have to complete the sequence before the 60 seconds are
up. Lots of folks are getting hit, but I haven't had much feedback yet
as to whether or not this is working for everyone else, if it is working then
folks are probably busy catching up, or, perhaps they are suspicious and are
waiting. Either way, you have to get the patch. Worse case, call
around to friends that live near you, if they haven't been affected yet ask
them to download the patch for the system you use to a floppy. When you
get the floppy (already have a friend that tried this) don't try to install
from the floppy. Put the file on your desktop first then install from
there. Good luck, if you're not clear on something let me know,
Pam
They're calling it a worm now, it's all over the news, plus they say
that by this Sat. it'll prevent you from getting to the MS website to get the
patch. McAfee finally sent me something on it, I hear Norton (Symantec) is
not commenting until tomorrow. Your job is to logon and start immediately
trying to get to the MS website and find your download. This download
takes awhile so if your computer is in the shape mine was in you'll get the
countdown to shutdown before you even get to the site. Warning, we had
to try a couple of times. Had to reboot once, another time Internet
Explorer said page was unavailable, I believe hitting refresh did the
trick. He (Earthlink) actually took me to www.microsoft.com, at the
very top we clicked on All Products (which gives a dropdown box), and
selected downloads. Yesterday, my selection was #4 on that page.
I have Windows XP, don't know what you have, and be careful, given all the
hype they may have moved things around. As long as you get the
countdown stopped and get into the main site you'll find your patch.
(I just checked, mine is still #4, but they are calling it the blaster
worm now, #3 is for Windows 2000, if you have NT you may have to look around
more within the site.) So, when the countdown to shutdown starts, go to
start (lower left in desktop), then select run. Clear whatever is in
the box and type shutdown /a then hit enter. Let me make sure we're
clear, you'll type shutdown (all one word), then space (yes there is a space
after shutdown) then forward slash, then a, then hit enter. Again
shutdown-space-forward slash-a-hit enter. That stops the clock and
makes that box go away. The guy had me download the patch to my
desktop. Then I exited everything and double-clicked the icon to start
the installation, the installation took quite some time, takes its sweet time
doing some file scan thing. But, life is good now!! Good luck, let
me know how it goes,
Pam
-----Original Message----- From:
Typef [mailto:typef@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:54
PM To: Don and Pam Bowen Subject: Re: [RC] help with
computer
Would you believe my daughter's new laptop came today and she
hooked it up, went online and now she's having this problem? What's the
"code" for bypassing the 60-second shutdown? I would really appreciate
it!!!
> Out of lurking for this one! It's not a
virus (McAfee didn't help me) and > it's going like crazy right now.
I got hit with the same thing and spent > hours on hold with Earthlink
yesterday to get it fixed. Once it gets to the > point of what
happened to me and the original poster it's not so easy to > fix, a patch
needs to be downloaded from MS, impossible when your computer > shuts down
a few minutes after being online. The problem is a weakness in > the
security system of Windows 2000, NT and XP and some pesky
hackers messed > things up. According to Earthlink, it's probably
going to hit everyone, > doesn't matter who your ISP is. Earthlink
is extremely busy right now!! > I've attached a link to a MS website that
describes the problem, there are > other links from there for more
information as well as the patches. It can > also be accessed
from the main Microsoft page. > > If anyone is running any of the
above systems it's probably a good idea to > download/install the patch
before you start having problems. If you're > already having
problems I can pass on the instructions Earthlink gave to me > to stop
the 60 second countdown to shutdown so you can stay online long > enough
to download the patch, email me privately. > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url="">03-026.asp
