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W32.Sasser.worm
Posted by Lester Chan at 03:20 in Virus
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A few of my friends had already been infected by this virus. It is a very wide spread virus. The patch had already been released weeks ago. If you got infected, you deserved it. For god’s sake, be a responsible user and keep your Windows up to date.

How to Tell If Your Computer Is Infected
If your computer is infected with W32.Sasser.worm, you may see a dialog box with text that refers to LSASS.exe. Some customers whose computers have been infected may not notice the presence of the worm at all, while others who are not infected may experience problems because the worm is attempting to attack their computer. Typical symptoms may include systems rebooting every few minutes without user input.

For more information on this virus and how to remove/prevent it, visit this Microsoft site.

To have enough time to do so, you need to disable the shutdown of Windows by any application. Go to Run, type “shutdown -a” without the quotes.


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sleepy's Avatar
sleepy
Comment #1
  • 03:50
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

well~ well~ up-to-date info…

xtreme funktions's Avatar
xtreme funktions
Comment #2
  • 09:34
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

omg … i’m infected .. what a lousy user i am ..

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xtreme funktions
Comment #3
  • 09:44
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

oh .. i didn’t kena the worm .. but how come i still see the lsass.exe .. strange .. got to delete it off ..

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GaMerZ
Comment #4
  • 15:39
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

keep your windows up to date always.

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The Source
Comment #5
  • 21:34
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

Hmm…. it seems I’m not infected.
And there seems to be no critical update for me in Microsoft Windows Update. That’s strange. Who updated it for me?

And how come there’s still lsass.exe in my task manager?

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GaMerZ
Comment #6
  • 22:00
  • Sunday, 2nd May 2004

that is the normal process.

Windows will auto update if you enable it.

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trav
Comment #7
  • 08:36
  • Monday, 3rd May 2004

don’t worry if you see it in task manager… lsass is a valid windows system process… i think it’s called ‘local security authority service’ or smth… oh lester :) i didn’t understand what u meant by ‘normal process’ until i finished this comment :p

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GaMerZ
Comment #8
  • 13:29
  • Monday, 3rd May 2004

LOL, ops my bad, didn’t explain clearly.

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keroro
Comment #9
  • 17:52
  • Monday, 3rd May 2004

lucky i manage to update successfully at that time. was having problems with the updates then. if not, i think i sure kanna this virus. pity cs, he can’t even use the internet when kanna by the virus

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GaMerZ
Comment #10
  • 23:12
  • Monday, 3rd May 2004

yap, I think you need to dl the patch and pass him in a disk.

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