My Mates laptop

[Dave Youell]

My mates got a laptop which has Xp and I think he's got a virus cos everytime he logs onto the internet he gets a wraning saying that his machine will close in 60 secs, then it does the count down and closes.

I remember a while ago there was a huge virus that did this to alot of PC's. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[The Destroyer]

Sounds like Blaster to me.

I think there's removal tool on the Microsoft site.

[JJ Moore]

yeah man, u need the patches from the microsoft site, it was released august 03 and another in sept 03.

WindowsXP-KB823980-x86-ENU.exe - Jul 03

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2354406c-c5b6-44ac-9532-3de40f69c074&displaylang=en

WindowsXP-KB824146-x86-ENU.exe - Sept 03

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5fa055ae-a1ba-4d4a-b424-95d32cfc8cba&DisplayLang=en

he'll need these two! :)

[Dave Youell]

OK, but how does he do that if he's only got 1 minute of Net time, before he gets kicked off????

Or could i just create a data CD on my PC?

[JJ Moore]

yeah dude, downlaod them for him, and whack em onto disk. If not ill sort u out!