Dealing with BLASTER

Affected by the nasty "Lovesan" worm? Get rid of it.


Lovesan has wrecked many a com­puter around the world, includ­ing some well pre­pared ones with fire­wall and what­Not. There is some very timely info from Mcafee on how to deal with this virus, espe­cially if your SVCHOST.EXE is crash­ing and keep­ing you from start­ing your machine at all.

Also con­tains a link to the Microsoft very use­ful help web­site (as good as post-hoc help can get, that is) with all the SOS info you need.

This is a good reminder to keep your fire­wall in stealth mode (e.g., Zonealarm) and your antivirus updated (e.g., Grisoft's FREE AVG). Also, reg­u­larly visit Win­dows Updates.

1 comment
  1. casandra farmer says: Mar 24, 20058:33 pm

    I deleted the P net­sky I had on my com­puter freak­ing fan­tas­tic, its just the files are still there I also want to dump all this trash that is left on my com­puter hid­ing as nor­mal files like in my limewire I was watch­ing a movie which I down­loaded from it then sud­denly it freaked out and the file I was watch­ing sud­denly became cur­rupted then then I closed the limewire and the app which I was watch­ing the movie from then when I reopened the limewire the worm­files had made that its new home I then res­canned my com­puter and the files are still there but the virus itself is gone I want the trash gone as well I'm only 17 if my mother sees all this stuff still on her com­puter she'll kick me off the com­puter for­ever well at least til I move out I need help with get­ting rid of this mess.

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