Good thing they caught the Sasser Worm author. My brother's laptop got the Sasser virus last week. i spent a night removing it for him. It had all the classic symptoms: slow performance when not on the internet, shutting down when logged on after a dialog box opens with a countdown timer.

He's a computer illiterate and had no idea what was wrong. i'm a little more knowledgeable than he is, but at least i had a working computer of my own to get help with. i did a control-alt-delete just to see what was running and i saw some suspicious looking exe files. Then i did a google search on my own computer using some of the file names, and the message in the dialog box that kept popping up.

i found a site called annoyances.org, which contained very helpful instructions and a link to Symantec's downloadable Sasser removal program. i shut off my brother's Sasser file temporarily, which i did in safe mode, then downloaded the removal tool and fixed the thing. It took me all night, because i had no idea what i was doing, but the Symantec instructions were surprisingly figure-outable.

Anyways, i think it worked, and his laptop is fine now. Next i think i'll try to find a better program to remove the lingering effects of my recent When-U-Search infection. i hate that thing.

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