Warning "Lovsan" Virus causing PC's to shut down

[jahlad]

yey think i got it sussed at last!!!!!!

damn thing reinfected me whilst i was trying to update my virus software....got the patch in place now and it seems to be ok

ok next q i guess is to l1f3, now im guessing you work with computers....what antivirus software do you recomend? and should i be running a firewall? im using win2000 on a 1gig pentium3 and would pref something that doesnt slow my machince down!

 

[Collier]

Norton Firewall aint bad!

 

[Andy]

yeah ive been having great fun with mine.

had to go and get norton this morning i couldnt stay online long enough do to anything ,

think im nearly there now though

 

[jahlad]

i didnt even realise i had a firewall...think i just found the norton one on my comp.....in norton internet security....i had it turned off for some reason!

computer seems ok for now i just ran another scan that came back clean

 

[Duncster]

Thanks for this guys! I've got this exact same problem at home. I'll have to burn a CD with the virus scanner stuff, as I can't get access to the internet for long enough before the PC crashes with the RPC error.

Dunc.

 

[Collier]

I don't get hit with much of this crap, I assume thats cos I'm natted through my dsl router?!??!?

Paul

 

[Dark Warrior]

Any anti-virus software is good as long as it's installed, up to date and configured correctly
Any firewall is good as long as it's installed, up to date and configured correctly
Install Microsoft security patchs, that what windows updates are for. Microsoft are not perfect and people love to expliot the flaws.
All anti-virus by the very nature of it's work will slow your machine down to some extent.
The biggest laugh for me is all those so called computer boffins at work, who get paid between 10% & 50% more than me, cursing because their Home PC's are crashing.

 

[Duncster]

tis done! you're stars!! instructions worked a treat.. I may now even purchase mcaffe virus scan !!

D.

 

[Dark Warrior]

On behalf of L1F3 and myself
glad to be of assistance

 

[Philip]

Matt: go back to a working restore point, or run the XP restore tool(boot from cd, e:\chkdsk /restore) and it should fix the problems.