Advice from a sadder but wiser TIPSter: I've just spent hours and hours - since Monday night - getting rid of the newest computer worm, "blaster," and have advice for anyone who hasn't gotten it yet. (This unlovely worm shuts your computer down on its own, then reboots it. It's a terrible nuisance, and the hardest is that it stays on for shorter and shorter periods of time, so while you're trying to find how to rid your computer of it, it closes Windows and shuts down.) I had Norton Anti-virus, updated, but while it found I was infected with the worm, it had no solution.
If you haven't gotten it, RACE your fingers to the microsoft.com website and download the patch which was developed last week. (If you have a Macintosh, count your blessings. You can ignore all this panic.) And IF you already have this problem (you can usually read emails for a few minutes before it shuts down), go to symantec.com, grab the Fix Blast program (it's prominently displayed) and SAVE it. It gives you instructions about how to install your firewall (from your control panel) while you load the de-worming program. Then turn off your modem, since that seems to slow the system shutdown. After you've dewormed your computer (takes about half an hour or more) be sure to go to microsoft.com and install the patch so you don't get reinfected. Hope this saves some of you the nuisance I've been through. Even the newspaper story about it this morning didn't give the solution I finally found after my computer shut itself down at least a hundred times while I searched for an answer. (And I'm buying stock in Symantec.) Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
