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Intrepid · 05-05-2004, 09:51 AM

I was infected by Sasser, my school and a few other schools in my city are infected, and many of my friends computers

I have since formatted, and reinstalled zone alarm, but wow this is really annoing. (i was going to format anyway, this just gave me a good reason to do it)

I don't blame microsoft, but i am getting angry with these attacks

Is shutdown the only remote operation these worms can do? why didn't the writer make it "better" or more destructive if they wanted to be really annoing

Also, ISPs are beginning to get tied up with these viruses, my connection was only 48k and now has dropped to 28k, do you think this virus will be eliminated completly? i mean msblast is still out there even now.

also thanks for the information T-D-C

[ 05-05-2004, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Intrepid ]

05-05-2004, 09:51 AM	#18
Intrepid Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 28, 2003 Location: Australia Age: 38 Posts: 1,124	I was infected by Sasser, my school and a few other schools in my city are infected, and many of my friends computers I have since formatted, and reinstalled zone alarm, but wow this is really annoing. (i was going to format anyway, this just gave me a good reason to do it) I don't blame microsoft, but i am getting angry with these attacks Is shutdown the only remote operation these worms can do? why didn't the writer make it "better" or more destructive if they wanted to be really annoing Also, ISPs are beginning to get tied up with these viruses, my connection was only 48k and now has dropped to 28k, do you think this virus will be eliminated completly? i mean msblast is still out there even now. also thanks for the information T-D-C [ 05-05-2004, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Intrepid ]