OT: Fixing George's msblast worm infected laptop

[George Roffe]

Bill the arcstarter wrote:

>I'm fighting this worm on my home machine.  I made the mistake of
>disabling the RPC functions.  BIG MISTAKE!  This kills and otherwise
>weirds out So much of Win2K - A full reinstall is required!

>Just a word of warning - let RPC run.

As you've probably read now, I set XP to ignore the failure.  XP doesn't
allow you to turn off RPC.  I guess I got lucky.

>Just tonight I've reloaded Win2K about 5 times ...

Damn.

That sucks Bill.

Microshaft blows goats.

George Roffe