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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 12:19:07 PM

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 12:19:07 PM

My computer is freaking out! I got only a minute, gotta hurry! Help please, whats the matter with this?!!?

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 12:20:30 PM

Also this!

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 12:26:08 PM

And one more error screen similar to that one above but "dcomx.exe" encounters a problem. Then the little timer will go off. This really sucks balls.

EDIT: Crap, I just found out "dcomx" is a virus. Norton blows the big one again.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: EmperorRob on August 11, 2003, 12:26:32 PM

somebody shut you down remotely ala admin priveleges.  If you\'re not at school you better patch your system.






haha really i don\'t know.  So glad i\'m not a winblows admin.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Ryu on August 11, 2003, 12:27:33 PM

It\'s happening all over the net.  You recently must have downloaded some windows update patch that has a flaw in it, or you have a virus currently on your PC that is causing this.  I\'ve heard numerous people have the same problems.  The best I can do for you is the following...

(Assuming you\'re running XP)

Go to the system control panel, and click the "Advanced" tab, then go into the settings for "Startup and Recovery". One of the checkboxes is "automatically restart". Uncheck it, hit apply, okay, then proceed to figure out what it is that\'s causing your system to hiccup.

(I honestly don\'t know why the hell this is even set on as the default. Everyone I know who\'s encountered it panics to high heaven when it happens.)

If that doesn\'t work, try this --

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 12:29:51 PM

Great... Read this link guys:

http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5059263.html

EDIT: crap, i gotta work... i\'ll deal with this later.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 06:08:48 PM

So, any suggestions? I tried that one disable restart thing Ryu, it still is being gay.


EDIT: Ok, I\'ve been online for almost half an hour now with nothing weird happening. I think it\'s cuz I had so many ports open with my router due to a bunch of online gaming. I\'ve closed all of them off, and everything seems a-OK.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Nolaws on August 11, 2003, 06:24:56 PM

http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en

download that fix (top right corner) will fix the problem

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Ryu on August 11, 2003, 06:31:45 PM

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So, any suggestions? I tried that one disable restart thing Ryu, it still is being gay.

If you read the whole post, you would have clicked the link I provided which seems to be solving everyone\'s problems.  Oh well.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 06:36:41 PM

Yeah, it happened again. I\'m back to the drawing board, and I\'ll do what the rest you said, my bad.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 06:44:10 PM

Ok, I downloaded the security patch. Hopefully all is well.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Ryu on August 11, 2003, 06:59:00 PM

You can really test it by fully opening your ports.  :]

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on August 11, 2003, 09:52:00 PM

or you could go to system properties, remote then disable Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 10:33:59 PM

Man what would I do without you guys?

p.s. Everything seems a-OK.

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: SwifDi on August 11, 2003, 11:04:10 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030812/wr_nm/tech_windows_worm_dc_3

Is this the same thing that was jackin with me?

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: 182Ways on August 12, 2003, 01:37:54 AM

It\'s a pain.

I started getting the errors a couple days ago, rarely, but then today it began to happen to me every few minutes.  The only way I could work on my PC was to disconnect my cable modem entirely.  It was a very frustrating experience.  I was actually going to attempt to post the same exact topic as this one (I got the screenshots of the error boxes, too).

But then after several attempts to find out what was wrong (I couldn\'t search the \'net for help because I was getting booted so often), I decided to reinstall Norton Antivirus and scanned my whole system.  Up popped "msblast.exe" and eventually I found out the problem was a not-so-little virus named "W32.Blaster.Worm."  You can find information about it here (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html), and as stated earlier, install the patch from Microsoft\'s website to fix things up.

It\'s been a few hours since I\'ve gotten the error, so hopefully things are working...

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: JBean on August 12, 2003, 12:39:11 PM

I got it too, as well as 3 of my co-workers.  I have a firewall but for some dumb reason it was turned off last week.  I was pulling my hair out last night trying to fix it.  Turning my firewall back on ended my 60 second reboots, but I still have to run the patch to get rid of it.  Man it really spread fast.

F*** you Blaster Worm!

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Samwise on August 13, 2003, 02:55:45 AM

LOL... it\'s God\'s way of punishing you. He thinks you\'re TEH GHEY!

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: ooseven on August 13, 2003, 03:13:09 AM

Got through untouched touch wood.

/me touch wood

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Originally posted by Samwise
LOL... it\'s God\'s way of punishing you. He thinks you\'re TEH GHEY!

But i am soo :ghey: so why wasn\'t I punished too :( ?

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 13, 2003, 11:53:35 AM

No problems for me either, still downloaded the patch though just to be safe.:D

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on August 14, 2003, 08:18:34 AM

^^^^

ditto

Title: Need major help, FAST!
Post by: guar on August 14, 2003, 08:33:14 AM

I\'m cool so far. Hope they catch whomever is responsible and cut their b___s off.