Re: Blaster Worm Help-URGENT

From: Gordon (gordon_at_gbpcomputing.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 08/20/05 

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:39:20 -0000

Perry wrote:
> David,
> Thank you for your repsonse. The reason why I think I have this
> worm, is because when windows starts up, immediately a window opens
> up with RPC notifying me that windows will shut down in 48 seconds or
> so. Once this happens, it also locks me from any further functions
> including the start button, and including the task manager.

There is a command you can issue from the "Start-Run" line.
Go to Start-Run and type in "cmd" without the quotes. Then type
"shutdown -a" again without the quotes. That will stop the count-down to
shutdown.
Then you can download the Blaster removal patch.

HTH

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