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How do you get it then?

7 posted on 08/15/2003 6:13:33 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)

From what I gather it breaks in to your system. My AV kept freezing up my system due to an incompatibility with Netscape and I had to turn it off. I have a firewall installed and I refuse to use IE. Call me stupid, yes, but we have not had a problem.

8 posted on 08/15/2003 6:17:19 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (I DID NOT vote for that woman, Napolitano!)

Hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but I understand that this "worm" infects your computer from surfing the internet. It only affects computers running Windows 2000 and XP. It is NOT a virus, it is a serious flaw in these two operating systems.

How to tell if you've got the worm? Your computer won't work well on the web, constanting shutting down. However, it affected my daughter's computer differently. Her CD drives wouldn't work and her fixit guy told her before she brought it in for repair to download the patch and see if that did the trick. She did and now everything works fine.

20 posted on 08/15/2003 6:25:49 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Why not go out on a limb, isn't that where the fruit is?)

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