Re: New Blaster Style Problem

From: A T Baehr (atb_at_stones.com)
Date: 09/05/03 

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:44:25 -0700

The only thing I clicked was the blue link at the bottom
of the email. The resulting page never did completely
load and the status bar at the bottom of the IE 6 page
blinked rapidly. I refused the cookie request, hit
refresh once and then x'd it off. The combination of
firewall, Nortons antivirus and being current on all
updates should give some protection or we will have to
have a separate computer for the internet.

>-----Original Message-----
>Doesn't sound Blaster related at all.
>
>If you click on a link, you can harm your system in any
number of ways and
>that aren't Microsoft's fault. If your link ran a batch
file that formats
>your C: drive or deletes system files, it's your fault
and not Microsoft's.
>Or if you got the Sobig worm, that spreads entirely by
fooling the user and
>has nothing to do with any Microsoft vulnerability, and
there will never be
>a Microsoft patch for the Sobig worm.
>
>This doesn't sound like a virus to me.
>
>
>"A T Baehr" <atb@stones.com> wrote in message
>news:1e3001c3739e$b636d660$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have a fully updated XP home with active firewall and
>> updated Norton AntiVirus. On Sept 4 in the pm I got an
>> eMail dated Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:22:55 +0300 (IDT) with
the
>> subject "14 Gb of Best softcore and hardcore videos
with
>> beautiful young russian girls!" Last night I clicked on
>> the reference site link of
>> http://www.geocities.com/stcommahatmaalgol1846/vfr/
>> and refused the request for a cookie. The site hung and
>> did not completely load. I refreshed once, got the
same,
>> and left. Later I defraged and rebooted with a scan
disk
>> option. The Pentium 4 2.5 hung on a recycle at the end
of
>> the black screen.
>> I rebooted in the safe command prompt and ran chkdsk
>> without the f. It reported no problems and I rebooted
and
>> it worked and I got to a slower complete XP boot. I had
>> updated live update and made a 3 hour scan yesterday
>> afternoon (twin 120Gb), and all windows XP and Office
XP
>> updates are in. I rebooted again and got the recycle at
>> the end of the black screen again. I safe booted to the
>> command prompt again and ran chkdsk. This time I got
>> errors in the master file record and a request to rerun
>> with F. I did and was told it would happen on reboot. I
>> rebooted and again it recycled at the end of the black
>> screen without running checkdisk. I turned it off and
>> went to bed.
>>
>> This am it started normally. Norton System Works disk
>> doctor reports "Problems were detected on Drive C, they
>> were not corrected" I have made a dos boot but my C is
>> NTFS. Looks to me like there is another hole that needs
>> fixing.
>
>
>.
>

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