Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
SoM, any idea how this virus is coming in? Is it a worm from an e-mail or a website? And will a virus scan catch it before doing an update?
Its a port-scan thing as I understand it. Which basically means that, rather than you having to do something to get/activate it, you have to do something to STOP it getting in. If you have a firewall that lets you close specific ports (or, as is recommended, close them all then open the ones you need), make sure port 4444 is closed, and 69 & 135 if you're not (intentionally) running programs that use those ports.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/8205.html And I leave Norton to update itself normally, and I ran a virus scan when my computer started crashing, which picked up nothing. Later, after I found out about all this, I updated it and it caught it. At any rate, updating shouldn't make things worse if you can do it.
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