Sasser & Blaster problem

From: Soups (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:41:47 -0700

Without going into how it happened (a very long story),
Sasser and Blaster both are occupying my notebook (HP
ze4230/XP). In a nutshell, it's thanks to no firewall
protection and a shocking (about 8 months worth) lack of
patches/updates from MS.
Right now, all downloads/installations of patches/updates
from MS are blocked with the familiar NT message. I have
tried instructions from Symantec, MS and countless others
to stop the processes so that I can (maybe) download
updates and a removal tool, but I cannot find any of these
processes in Task Mgr. These include processes starting
with 4 or more numbers to msiwin84.exe, all from a very
recent list from Symantec. I never found Msblast.exe
either. I have disabled System Restore. I have altered the
RPC from first, second and subsequent failures to restart
the service. In a nutshell, I have followed everything,
but I cannot get rid of this mess.
Where else might I find Sasser/Blaster to stop the
processes?
Is it possible that I could do a System Recovery (not
restore--I can be dumb, but not that dumb!), add a
firewall and then go online to install what I need?
Thanks for the help.

Soups