Um I stayed on way past 9pm, uh oh.

forgot to turn my pc off :doh:

i never download attachments unless the person tells me they sent sumthing in an im or somthing. and the way i see it. i could care less if it wiped out my HD since i dont have anything on my comp that i couldnt re download or reinstall from disks

Thats good Mike.... But you dont download email atttachments to get it :P

Actually this is a new virus which had been spreading online recently. This virus currently infect Windows XP but not sure whether Windows 2000 is vulnerable to it. You will know you're infected when a small pop up window appear with a timer counting down the shutdown.

Well, download the microsoft patch at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

A reboot might be required after patching.

Next up is to delete the files

1. Control+ALT+DEL and end the process called msblast.exe
2. Goto search and find msblast, there should be two files with that name, msblast.exe and mblast.exe-123xxx
3. Use RegEdit and go to HKEY_LOCAL- MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run and delete the msblast auto update

Then reboot the machine

To buy yourself some time so you can actually do all of this, when shutdown window appears click Start>run>type in "cmd" (no quotations) then in the window that pops up type "shutdown -a" no quotations. This stops the shutdown but doesnt allow you to copy or paste text and other such things.


Hope it help.

- Matthew

Yes i did that Matthew........... Ages ago, still got infected files tho!

Just don't download anything that someone is sending you in a email even if you know the person get it through a im program so you know it's them and don't download anything from strange areas and your fine.

Hell I don't have a viri scanner installed and if I think I got one then I do an online check, but viri scanners are a pain when it comes to gamming. Also a router is useally good enough fire wall protection as the odds of getting hacked by an amazing hacker that you don't know is rare.

And just for the records I havn't had one viri for 2 years now so I think these steps work mint ;)

how many times do i have to say MSBLAST IS NOT DOWNLOADED BY EMAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!