Re: GTL reboots my machine?

My nieces got hit with a sasser like virus that infected Internet Explorer,
caused the maching to keep shutting down after 60 seconds, (you have to
repeatedly enter a dos command "shutdown -a" to stop this), prevented
msconfig or task manager from running, and anti-virus software couldn't
find anything to fix.

Apparently you need to keep doing updates from Microsoft, the malicious
software removal tool seems to be the key update to prevent the type of
virus my nieces got, but it couldn't fix it. I had to back up their
data, and re-install Windows to get rid of this problem. There are
some types of viruses you can get by just viewing a web page if you
don't keep up with the updates with Microsoft (exploting weaknesses
in some versions of Internet Explorer).

Personally, I don't use anti-virus software, I just practice safe data.

For email, I have "read messages in plain text" set, and reply in same
format turned off, to prevent HTML stuff from launching while viewing
emails (especially when others in my family are reading their emails).



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Relevant Pages

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