Posted: 6/10/2004 10:01:32 PM EDT
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We got a new laptop here at work yesterday. Spent most of yesterday afternoon setting it up, loading necessary programs and whatnot. Tried getting it to connect to our WAP with no luck. Went ahead and plugged ethernet cable into the back of it to register Office. Got it registered, then got a critical fault alert. Seems the LSA Shell was fucked. It restarted itself, then when it started running again, the damn thing was slower than goose shite. Checked the task manager and a program called avserve2.exe is sucking the RAM. Googled it and saw that it was part of the Sasser virus. Now everything I installed on this thing came from either a system disk or from a clean computer. It was connected directly to the DSL modem for maybe 2 minutes. Surely this thing wasn't infected in 2 minutes when only visiting two sites. That said, I did receive some kind of Windows Update message from Windows Messenger. Perhaps that was the culprit? Running Stinger now, looks to have zapped one virus already. Have it connected through the router now, so hopefully I'm safe. |
I downloaded all the updates for windows 98 from the windows update catalog, and have them burned onto a CD, is there a way that I can automatically install all of them on a computer (runs windows 98 on dialup, and I don't think it has been updates since 2001) They will be geting DSL, and I want to install the critical updates before it is hooked up to DSL. So, how do I install those updates? do I have to do each one individually? How do I make sure they are done in the right order? |
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You CAN get a virus from a CD, trust me. Got a friend who, every time he added his printer back onto his system (this happens because he's a computer retard, and screws his system up on a regular basis, and we have to reinstall Windows), things start happening. I had a hunch, and scanned his printer driver disc. Guess what? 2 Viruses on the dang disc. HP brand, no less. Very strange, but yes, it can happen. |