This is just great, I have my firewall disabled for 10 minutes and then I get an error saying that lsass.exe has performed and error then a box comes up telling me that I have 60 seconds to save all my work before the computer restarts. There seems to be no problem right now, but anyway, if I remember corectally, it sounds like the msblast worm, I figured that windows update would automatically download it but I guess not, so if anyone could give me a link to the fix for the msblast, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

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*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"

At least I thought it was the msblast worm, I've been on the internet for almost 10 minutes and from what I remember, msblast shuts it down after being on for about 2 minutes. Could it have just been a random error?

[EDIT]Posting at the same time = bad.. anyway, I'm beginning to think it was just a random crash. I'll bet I was over-reacting just a little bit. I've had some spyware problems lately and must be a little jumpy about things. Thanks though.[/EDIT]

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*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"

[This message has been edited by Stormtrooper (edited July 06, 2004).]

Um, to my knowledge there are other errors in windows that can cause it to start a restart timer and crash. I have had it happen to me before and I already had the msblast patch installed. If it hasn't happened again, it is probably fine, if not microsoft does have the patch availible for download somewhere on their site.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx

Well, DID you do updates? At least the critical ones?

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I download and install whatever updates it shows on the windows updater when it pops up. Thanks for the link.

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*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"

You probably have the sasser worm, not to be confused with msblast. There's a removal tool somewhere, try googling for it.

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Yeah, that would more like Sasser...

http://www.google.com/search?q=sasser+removal+tool

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I was reading through some of the descriptions of sasser and what it does and I don't have any of the things it creates (the exe in the windows dir or the registry value it creates) so how can I tell if I have it? Shouild I just run the removal utility then patch against it even if I might already be patched against it?

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*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"

Can't hurt.

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Ive seen a few variants of Sasser that dont show up *AT ALL*, that the removal tools dont see, but still crash the system. The only defense against those is to reinstall the OS.

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They show up, but not in any conventional means that the tools are equipped to deal with. You can remove them, but it involves editing several registery keys and deleting seemingly harmless .ocx and .dll files. But for the most part, this man speaks the truth.

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Well, I don't think I have anything wrong with my computer because I've had 0 problems since then. I think I was just taxing my computer too much by running way to many programs, I really need to upgrade. Thanks anyway.

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*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"