Another day, another massive viral infection hits the Net, this time in the form of the Blaster (or Lovsan) worm.
As always, keep a good firewall, have a good AV system (and keep those signatures up to date!), and keep your systems patched (as difficult as M$ makes that).
Symantec (at least) has a tool you can download to clean an infected machine, as does McAfee/NAI. All the major vendors have updates to their AV signature files.
If you don’t have a firewall, turn on the Microsoft crapola one (Advanced tab in the properties of your network connection); it will let you stay connected long enough to download the above tools, if you are infected already.
(I got to play Remote Tech for my folks today. And, remarkably enough, managed to get them up and running, rusty as my tech support skills may be. Yay, me.)
Just a quick note – it ain’t me!!!!