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Story: Worm exploits major Windows flaw

Posted by: kelly Pritchard (Tuesday 12 August 2003, 11:56 AM)

I fought the worm. Took me all day to get it off my computer. I first noticed the Win 32 generic host 32 message as early as Thursday or perhaps wednesday on my computer. It was then shutting down my computer about evey 3 or 4 hours or so, and sometime after 6AM Pacific daylight time it started knocking me off line and rebooting its self until I got up a 4:00 pm PSDT and then its average time between rebooting was 2 minutes.
I do not know where it came from. But I do know I had if for sure since last Wed or Thrus.
I downloaded a patch from a site AOL Tech support sent me ( God bless Cable connections ) it only took like a few seconds to get online and I managed to down load the patch and ran it from site, and it downloaeded and fixed the problem. I will also say Trend micro systems free online scan was able to say it found it and removed it but it was not removed . the patch from the website they sent me is what worked.