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sound serious and freaky lol i hope i dont get it thanks for that info

But is this a virus?Because it doesnt sound like a virus to me... :undicided:

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Originally posted by Mike2
But is this a virus?Because it doesnt sound like a virus to me... :undicided:

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It is a virus, why do you think it isn't?

I don't think we have much to fear..the warning was to install a patch that has been released some time ago already. Also if u keep ur antivirusprogram up to date ur most likely protected against it already.

Also handy is  AVERT Stinger it scans for virusses/trojans/worms an related items...
get it here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
(it found a few items my AV didnt )

Ohh yeah..what's sasser? It's a worm.

It allows a remote attacker to run malicious code on your pc, so it's kinda a virus

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Originally posted by tomfletcherman
It allows a remote attacker to run malicious code on your pc, so it's kinda a virus

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Asfar as i know all it does is cause errormessages an reboots ur comp.

If you type SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 at Run the same thing happends...

Microsoft always give crap names To these things, Why cant they just give them the proper names, Ask the owner or something what they called it.

Just give them names like, For Example "NetSky"

But they called the newest one:

W32.NetSky.AB,  Always having to give them big names, Which are very pointless. Just confuses people who do not know anything about viruses,

As for me, I just let them Be, If they break my PC, Then Just format, I now have a virus scanner, So it takes the problems away, So... That should be a good thing,

So In otherwords.

Microsoft SUCK

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Originally posted by JoeX
Microsoft always give crap names To these things, Why cant they just give them the proper names, Ask the owner or something what they called it.

Just give them names like, For Example "NetSky"

But they called the newest one:

W32.NetSky.AB,  Always having to give them big names, Which are very pointless. Just confuses people who do not know anything about viruses,

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1. Microsoft does not give these viruses a name, AV companies do. Making virusses is illegal, so they couldn't just ask the creator what name he/she gave it .
2. If they would just call it "Netsky" you wouldn't know which version you have. Every new version has a slight change in it, so it's best to know if a specific removal tool works for the version you might have.

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Originally posted by JoeX
As for me, I just let them Be, If they break my PC, Then Just format, I now have a virus scanner, So it takes the problems away, So... That should be a good thing,

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most people don't like to "just format" as they lose a lot of data in that way (especially if they haven't made a back up of their files).
A virus scanner is good but it's not waterproof, if you go and open every file you get by e-mail or so you have a big change of getting a new virus which hasn't been added to your virus definitions yet. You should always be carefull on the internet.

edit: no need to double post

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Originally posted by Sunshine
Asfar as i know all it does is cause errormessages an reboots ur comp.

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It also spreads itself.  Which involves up to 1024 processes simultaneously and indefinitely picking random IP's and trying to infect the computer on that ip with the virus.  No wonder computers get error messages and reboot.  You can't do anything with it.