Pacific Time on August 11, Microsoft began investigating a worm reported by Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). Get More Details in the Technical Virus AlertĬlick the term to get the definition from our Security and Privacy Glossary.Īt 11:34 A.M. What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm I don't know if this is asking a bit too much of end users, most of whom would just simply like to run their everyday productivity programs, games, surf and that's about it.
I mean, now I even assemble my own systems instead of buying from Dell and the like. It seems to me that in order to really use a computer optimally and securely, one almost has to become a "techie" by default and necessity. But after all these years, I never learnt to program, unless you include HTML and some statistical package stuff.īut I have found myself increasing visits to sites like Techspot for their tweak guides, etc. Soon, for school projects, I slowly learnt word processing. Back then it was still MS-DOS, and I had to learn config.sys and autoexec.bat tweaks in order to maximize the amount of higher memory available (extended and expanded memory, himem.sys and em386.exe if I recall correctly?). I have been thinking about this: I bought a computer years ago just to play games. In the end, the larger issue is not about this particular worm alone it's about what the end user and Microsoft should do respectively to ensure secure computing.
Kewlness, given that your system has been scanned and proclaimed clean, then you're probably safe as long as you keep up to date with patches and AV/firewall updates.
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