w32.Blaster.Worm

[uday]

Latest Virus which hit no of comp.'s all over world. It can reboot your system ( in WINXP ) and show some system error in other flavours of windows ( like svchost.exe errors)

Execute Microsoft updates if u run Windows as O.S.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

tHEN GO TO URL
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe

AND EXECUTE the above URL TOOL.

Mendatory for your home pc's also.....
Can refer at http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_337516,0003.htm

[anujkumar]

Thanks for the info. very helpful.

[shekhar_nehra]

Very heplful info.

1 of my friends had this problem with his system.

[sunju11]

Easy way out-

1. Open task manager
2. Go to Processes Tab
3. End process named-Msblast.exe

Go to registry,
LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentver sion\run
Delete registry "window auto start"

Go to windows/system32 directory and delete msblast.exe

Then, you can run window updates from
www.windowsupdate.com