25 August 2003Tech Stuff
I've Got Worms!

I've Got Worms!
I don't really have worms. I've got one worm. Something called the W32.Welchia.Worm has infected my computer and I don't know what to do about it.

The worm starts uploading information as soon as I get online. This wouldn't be such a big deal except that in Samoa, Internet accounts are charged by the Megabyte and by the hour, and it's slowing my already tortoise-like conection down to standstill.

When I realized I had a virus of somesort I downloaded Ad-Aware to remove any spyware that could be trying to send massive amounts of data from my machine over the net. This didn't do anything but delete a few useless cookies.

Then this afternoon, I went over to a friends office to install the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus (2003) which is how I discovered the worm. But Norton can figure out how to delete it.

I'm goinging through the documetion online right to see if I can find a solution and get rid of this nasty little parasite. Any suggestions greatly appeciated.

***update***
It looks like Symantec has a "tool" to disable and remove the worm. I'm going to go download it and see how it works for me. Wish me luck.

Posted by andrew at August 25, 2003 04:33 PM


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