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Here is where I am. Running XP Home. Was surfing a sports board. Got a BSOD. And since then cannot boot at all. lsass.exe system error invalid parameter Did enough searching to convince me I got the Sasser worm or some variation thereof. Booted from CD; tried repair console. No success. So I am ready to hopefully reinstall. I want to save my programs. Data I need is backed up on a second hard drive. So when I get to the point of selecting which drive to install on. I get the message that I will lose data, apps, etc....

VERDEN, Germany - The teenager who created last year's Sasser computer worm was convicted Friday of computer sabotage and given a suspended sentence, a court official said. Sven Jaschan, 19, also was found guilty of illegally altering data, said Katharina Krueztfeld, a spokeswoman for the court in the northwestern town of Verden. He was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months. Prosecutors had been seeking a suspended two-year sentence for the German teen who admitted he created last year's "Sasser" computer worm, court officials said. In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors asked that Sven Jaschan be found guilty...

Teenager Charged With Creating Sasser   Informants, seeking a reward from Microsoft, led police to the German student. Prosecutors in Verden, Germany, indicted an 18-year-old student this week for allegedly creating the Sasser worm that crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide after spreading at lighting speed over the Internet.In their 77-page indictment, prosecutors in the northern German town charged the suspect, Sven Jaschan, with computer sabotage, data manipulation, and disruption of public systems. Informants, seeking a $250,000 reward from Microsoft, tipped off the U.S. software giant to Jaschan. He was arrested on May 7 after confessing to German crime...

The informant who tipped Microsoft Corp. to the identity of the "Sasser" computer worm's creator last month is among five people under investigation as possible accomplices, prosecutors said Wednesday. The worm's 18-year-old creator, Sven Jaschan, was arrested at his home in northern Germany May 7 following the tip to Microsoft from an informant seeking a reward. Jaschan, whose worm raced around the world exploiting a flaw in the company's Windows operating system, is free pending charges. The week after the arrest, police questioned five people, some of whom said Jaschan had given them the source code for the "Netsky" virus,...

Suspected 'Sasser' creator arrested in Germany Worm infected thousands of computers worldwide The Associated Press Updated: 5:43 a.m. ET May  08, 2004 BERLIN - German authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the "Sasser" computer worm, which infected thousands of computers worldwide, an official said Saturday.The suspect, a high school student, was arrested Friday, said Frank Federau, a spokesman for the state criminal office in Hanover.Police and prosecutors on Friday searched his parents' house in the northern town of Waffensen, Federau said. He did not release the man's identity, and said he did not immediately have details of how...

Finnish bank closes to ward off Sasser virus 2 hours, 17 minutes ago Add Technology - AFP to My Yahoo! HELSINKI (AFP) - Sampo, Finland's third largest bank, closed its 130 branch offices across the country to prevent the Sasser Internet worm from infecting its systems. AFP/File Photo The Sasser bug has so far contaminated millions of computers worldwide, making them shut down and restart in an endless loop. "We decided to close our offices as a precaution, since we knew that our virus protection hadn't been updated," Sampo spokesman Hannu Vuola told AFP on Monday. "It is possible that...

<p>May 3 (Bloomberg) -- A computer worm called Sasser may have infected hundreds of thousands of computers through the Internet and is still spreading, possibly disrupting business today, a security software expert said.</p> <p>The worm, which is different than a virus because it doesn't need to be attached to an e-mail to spread, causes a computer to shut down and then reboot several times, apparently without causing any permanent damage, said Mikko Hyppoenen, director of virus research with Helsinki-based F-Secure Oyj. The worm was detected Saturday at 4 a.m. Finnish time, he said.</p>

Computers using Microsoft's Windows XP or 2000 operating systems are the target of a new Internet worm that spreads from machine to machine without user intervention. The worm, dubbed Sasser, takes advantage of a flaw in Windows that was patched by a fix issued in mid-April. However, because not all users take advantage of an auto-update feature included in Windows XP and 2000, there are still many systems connected to the Internet that are vulnerable. Sasser attacks a component of Windows called LSASS.EXE, and installs a file called AVSERVE.EXE, which then begins scanning the Internet and local networks for more...

A new internet worm, named "Sasser" began spreading across the net Friday night. It uses the MS LSASS vulnerability that was patched recently by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011.