my hubby was playing an online game and out of no where he got a blue screen and then the pc rebooted. it started up again in safe mode fine but now it just keeps blue screening and shutting off, does this sound like a virus or something?
If you are running
Windows XP or Windows
2000, you probably have the
Blaster worm.
The quick-and-dirty way to get rid of it is with the free
FixBlast utility from
Symantec. Here's the URL of interest:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...oval.tool.html
It runs from a floppy, so it's easy to run on the infected machine. It won't hurt things if the virus is not present. Be
sure to read the instructions, especially as it pertains to having to re-initialze your
Windows Restore.
If you do not have a hardware firewall, you need a software-based firewall. A hardware firewall is part of most cable/DSL routers, for example. A free software-based firewall is
Zone Alarm Free Edition:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...ap_za_grid.jsp
Which ant-virus are you using? A good free one is
AVG Anti-virus Free Edition available from
http://www.Grisoft.com
Of course, if you are running Windows
95/98/Me the Blaster worm is not the problem... but the rest still applies.
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