Re: Are These Sasser Worm Symptoms?

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From: Crusty \(-: Old B_at_stard :-\) (B_at_stard)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:31:37 -0400

You can not get infected if your computer is turned off.

If you have an "always on" DSL connection, one that you don't have to
initiate prior to starting Internet Explorer or Outlook Express, then you
can become infected just by turning the computer on and booting into
Windows. 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Regina Litman" <rslitman@infi.net> wrote in message
news:409A5291.4080305@infi.net...
> I know what to do if I have the Sasser worm, and I also have plans afoot
> to get a firewall in by the end of the week. I'm a home user of XP, but
> I have XP Professional. My Internet connection is via a DSL line, so I
> think (but I am not sure) that this means that I can get something
> through my connection without knowing it, possibly even when I'm not
> signed on to the Internet, and possibly even without the computer being
> turned on.
>
> Anyway, here are some things that have happened to my computer in the
> past week or so. Have any of you had any of these problems, and if so,
> do you know what caused it?
>
> 1. Norton Anti-Virus got corrupted to the point that the virus checking
> was turned off. Plus LiveUpdate no longer works - I get a message that
> says, "LU1848 Couldn't create callback object." I am aware that this is
> a Microsoft help group, not a Symantec/Norton help group. I have already
> found fixes for these on the Symantec site. I am only posting this item
> to find out if others have had this problem, too.
>
> 2. Windows Media Player got uninstalled. Fortunately, I was able to get
> it back by running Windows Update and downloading it as a suggested
> Windows XP addition.
>
> 3. A left-side frame with Lycos in the name showed up on a Google search
> results page. I was able to click in an "x" in a corner to get rid of
> it. The next time I went to the desktop, I saw a new icon to start up
> this Lycos item. I went into Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel
> and found this item with a date of 5/5/04 (the day this happened). I
> removed it, and so far it doesn't seem to have returned.
>
> 4. I am getting an inordinate number of pop-up ads. I've been remiss in
> installing a pop-up blocker because the number I got, from such sites as
> www.snopes.com, www.imdb.com, and www.espn.com that rely upon a
> reasonable number of these, was manageable. I'm getting these at sites
> that would almost certainly not have pop-ups, including ones run by the
> U.S. Government. While a "solution" to this is to get a pop-up blocker,
> I want to treat the problem itself, not the symptoms. Plus, some web
> sites I visit use the same technology as pop-ups to display legitimate
> information, so I don't want to close myself out of these.
>
> 5. The past two days, as I've tried to go to Symantec's site, a
> full-screen page to order a different anti-virus product appears. I
> don't know if this is a spoof or a legitimate page. The only way to get
> rid of this page that I have found so far is to do Ctl-Alt-Del and then
> End Task for this displayed page (which does not shut down Internet
> Explorer totally, and once that page is gone, I can see Symatec's okay).
>
> Thanks for any comments anyone has regarding these.
> -- 
> Please note my correct email address:
>
> rslitman [at-sign] infionline [dot] net
>

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