what is sasser and how do you know when you are infected?

One more thing that you can do to avoid your computer from shutting down is to change the date of your computers clock to about a year before the current date.

Usama
November 2004

If youR PC wants to shut down and starts a countdown, makiing it difficult to stay online to sort your problem out click on START then RUN. In the box type shutdown -a and click return this will bide you time to get a download program to remove the virus.

Colin Bosanquet
June 2004

Zone Alarm should be fine. (As long as the version is not too old.) If you're in any doubt you could download the latest version.

Paul Long
May 2004

thank you pete im using zone alarm is that ok to block sasser out

andy c
May 2004

Andy....

Microsoft have a page about the Sasser Worm here http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp

Basically it can infect your PC by getting in via unprotected internet connections. It causes computers to shut down. If you're using your PC and a window pops up to tell you that windows is about to shutdown (you get a count down to zero and then windows closes) you're probably infected.

Pete Little
May 2004