Sasser or what ? ?
 

Last week I guess I got the Sasser worm, even though I had downloaded the Microsoft update on April 14th.I ran the Symantec removal tool which said 'not found' but my PC worked fine. Yesterday I installed the critical update and this morning I had the symptoms of Sasser, I ran the Symantec removal tool, which said 'not found' but my PC is, obviously, working fine again now.

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

What symptoms did you observe?

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...sser.worm.html
...lists only two visible ones. Do you have a file called avserve.exe in your windows directory or one called win.log in the root of C:?

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

what OS are you running - as you need to run the tool in safe mode if you are on 95/98/ME.

The worm doesn't work on these OSs so would be hard to detect...

HTH

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

I don't have either of those on my system.
I'm running XP -Pro. I did re-start in safe mode, turned off system restore etc etc. It's just so odd that it's alright now.

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

What led you to think you had the Sasser worm, if every diagnostic you ran said that Sasser was not found?

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

The symptoms were the same as sasser, continuously stuck in a loop re starting.

Re: Sasser or what ? ?
 

I believe that can also sometimes happen due to a faulty install script, but then i could be talking complete b0010cks