Tuesday, May 04, 2004
If you're one of those people who doesn't install Microsoft security patches on a regular basis, you absolutely *must* install and run a firewall.There's a new worm virus called Sasser that spreads much like the Blaster virus. It doesnt require you to run any email attachments, or download itself... if you're online and unprotected, it can get you.
I've known there was somthing odd going down for a while coz I was getting scanned an abnormal ammount for a week or two... but my firewall kept them out. This was probably systems infected with Sasser tying to get into my pc to infect me too.
So, if your system starts to crash all of a sudden for no obvious reason, you're probably infected. No doubt there are removal tools out there, though I haven't looked.
Seriously though, if you haven't already, go to your IE tools menu and select windows update, and install all the critical updates (though I wouldnt personally recommend installing SP1, but thats just me), then get yourself a firewall just to be sure.
Labels: computers
Steve 5:18 AM [+]
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