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WINDOWS 2000 VIRUS

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by filipofrank

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I HAVE BEING USING WINDOWS 2000 FOR SOMETIME NOW.RESENTLY IT IS NOT FUNCTIONING WELL. ALL THE ICONS ON THE DESKTOP GET FUNISH AND ALL THE FILES IN THE PROGRAM FILE FOLDER. WHEN I CONSULT A FRIEND HE TOLD ME IT A NEW VIRUS THAT HAS SURFACED AND AFFECTING WINDOS 2000 AND WINDOWS XP.
PLEASE I NEED HELP FROM THOSE GEK AND GURUS IN THE HOUSE TO POST GOOD IDEAS OUT.
THANKS.

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by joseph moore

You are kidding, right? YOu haven't heard the news on Blaster?
It's been on CNN, USA Today, New York Times, and everywhere else for the past week!

Ok. Go to this page on Symantec's web site and read up on Blaster:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
(please remove any spaces)

There are links for a tool you can download and install to clean out the virus, plus links to Microsoft's site to download the patch that will make your computer immune.

There is a major flaw in all versions of Windows that you need to patch. And the Blaster worm came out a week ago today (Monday) and started exploiting it.

Run the patch from Microsoft, and you should be fine.

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