Sasser anyone?

[Mermaid02]

Okay...... who has had the Sasser virus? We did, go it Friday and finally got rid of it this morning! What a pain!

 

[wendyl]

Mom just told me this morning that she got it!! YIKES!!!!

 

[piglet too]

My husbands work was without computers for most of the day Monday due to it. One of his co-workers also got it on his home computer. We actually did an update last week and then he did one on Monday too, so knock on wood, we are covered.

 

[Mermaid02]

Probably there would be more replies but the people with sasser can't stay on line long enough to post them!

 

[CBRorBust]

How do you get it? I got a pop-up box yesterday telling me that I had it and asked if I wanted to scan windows now. I called my brother and told him he said to just X out the screen. Everything went back to normal.

So do I really have it or did I avoid getting it?


*MY 2000th Post*

 

[piglet too]

Originally posted by CBRorBust


*MY 2000th Post*

Congrats on your 2000th post!

 

[heathrow42]

If you have windows 2000 or XP, haven't run windows update in a while and have been online for more than 10 minutes in the last week- you probably are infected.

Dan Murphy posted some very good links on this thread:

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=560838&highlight=+sasser

You should get a personal firewall and anti-virus, and run windows update.

You can run windows update by clicking on the start button and looking for it toward the top of the list. If it isn't there, use internet explorer and go to microsoft.com and click on Windows Update (in the left tool bar under Resources) Click on Scan for updates, when it is done click on Install. Some updates have to be installed seperately.. so when it is done, let it restart and go back to the windows update, let it scan again it will tell you if there is more to install or if you are all done. It will be time consuming if you have dial up-- but it is still very worth it.

--Heather
(internet-security-grrrrl)