[paranoid?]

ok ok .....I know my forum name doesn't help my cause, you probably think I'm some kind toothless yokel living a life of seclusion hiding from governmental conspiracy or alien out of fear of waking up naked in a corn field with a sore ass and smelling of cheap masculine perfum. Or also hiding from other governmental employee because of taxe fraud.....hypotheticly speaking of course.

Well to be brief, it as been 2 days now since that problem started, "Generic Host Process for Win32" error message which ends with a little countdown rebooting your PC and it does it over and over and over. Something to do with the RCP service. For me, since I have a standard dial modem (56k) about a minute after I connect to the internet this message appears and I can't do shit about it......its VERY annoying. At first I thought it was some kind of system error I needed to fix, but everything I tried didn't work, so I started investigating on that crap. I found out it might be a virus, actualy I'm positive it is but Norton didn't detect it..... so it must be new
check here http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/72161.html

If someone else has this problem it will help them
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[DJorgensen]

Your problem is a worm that your computer contracted as part of a security issue recently discovered in windows.

This link here should solve the problem...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

but if you have dail-up you'll have to remove the worm first.
So:
"Disconnect from the internet, or any networks you are attached to
Close port 135/tcp (and if possible 135-139, 445 and 593)
Remove this registry key - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, name: 'windows auto update'
Delete the file msblast.exe
Install the patch.
Update your antivirus"

I just read all of this on the Eatpoo forums, so ALL thanks goes out to Dr.Bang and arcane there...

Hope this helps anyone.

[Diruo]

This is a known problem that got alot of attention a couple of weeks ago. Delete all references to msblast.exe on your computer and download:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

that will sort it

[eyalyab]

is this the msblast virus? i just helped someone fix it ;]

[12:22:54] <ey51> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en
[12:25:37] <Svartberg> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

[merlyns]

I just recoverd from it

thanks for those helpfull links eyalyab

-david
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[paranoid?]

Thanks a lot guys =]

yep I just did all this procedure this morning, I was way too pissed last night and I think its fix now. One thing that made it harder for me was that I was unable to access the Window Task manager, as soon as I opened it, it was closing right away. But I fixed it, I had to delete the config code of the task manager in Regedit.exe to put them back to default.


I know shit about computers.....slowly learning and slowly forgetting about it all O_o
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[scallywag]

These days you really need a firewall, you can download a pretty good free one here (you have to navigate the site a little):

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/zap_za_grid.jsp

[paranoid?]

OOOooooooo me like
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