- Um...an slightly unrelated event: My computer was acting sluggish yesterday, and wouldn't turn on this morning. I had to reinstall the OS from scratch, can anyone tell me if there is a way to retrieve deleted files? ~Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dru C Reeves" <dru.reeves@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: OT-W32.Blaster.Worm > - > Just one more reason to stay away from those fine Microsoft > products...way to go Bill!!!! > > On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 06:21 PM, Eric & Dayna East wrote: > > > - > > Thanks Rich!!!! My computor was infected with it. I was blaming the > > twins for doing something to the computor because they're always > > messing something up. LOL > > > > Eric > > > > GC-RGS wrote: > > > >> - > >> For those not aware of this, a new virus/worm struck yesterday and > >> infected 100's of thousands of machines using Windows 2000 and XP. > >> Win 95, 98 and ME ARE NOT effected. > >> The worm exploits the DCOM RPC vulnerability and causes the PC to > >> shut down in 60 seconds whenever connected to the internet. > >> > >> See > >> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ > >> w32.blaster.worm.html for a removal tool and instructions for doing > >> it manually. > >> > >> Rich > > **************************************************************************** > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html > **************************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list: > send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > > > > **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field