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re: One good thing about Win98SE - too old to be susceptible to MSBlaster

SDAI-Tech1 — 8/16/2003 12:46:53 AM (archived)

I had one XP system go down that hadn't been updated and wasn't running Norton succumb to MSblast.

There several variants out there and one made it impossible to even load the OS. It also attacked and destabilized the system registry hive - which made for the dreaded System32/Config type error. It required a complete reload of the OS and a recovery mode modification to restore the registry.

Msblast can be nasty.

XP is stable...but also a royal pain and susceptible to every backdoor virus known to hackerkind.

SDAI-Tech1

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I HAVE HAD ENOUUGH!!!!! - RNE - 8/10/2003 7:54:00 PM
- One good thing about Win98SE - too old to be susceptible to MSBlaster (n/t) - Fox - 8/13/2003 1:23:40 AM
  - re: One good thing about Win98SE - too old to be susceptible to MSBlaster - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/16/2003 12:46:53 AM
    - Did you get the "Wormer" from Symantec? (n/t) - Fox - 8/16/2003 2:25:22 AM
      - re: Did you get the "Wormer" from Symantec? - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/16/2003 6:45:46 PM
- Is this the brand new box you were putting together? - FrankC - 8/11/2003 3:56:24 AM
- re: I HAVE HAD ENOUUGH!!!!! - Davin L. - 8/11/2003 2:26:39 AM
  - re: I HAVE HAD ENOUUGH!!!!! - Davin L. - 8/12/2003 12:48:07 AM
  - re: I HAVE HAD ENOUUGH!!!!! - RNE - 8/11/2003 1:19:17 PM
    - Worst ever OS - Nick Hoffman - 8/11/2003 4:50:48 PM
      - re: Worst ever OS - RNE - 8/11/2003 9:05:14 PM
        
        re: Worst ever OS - McFly - 8/13/2003 6:07:31 PM
        
        Blame the games... - Nick Hoffman - 8/11/2003 9:29:00 PM

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