Hi peeps,
currently installing another Dell (arrgghhh I hear some of you cry!).
Anyway, W32.Sasser.Worm managed to download itself and penetrate the system within 5 seconds of connecting to broadband for the first time, hence before I managed to do an anti-virus updated.
The Symantec
website doesn't have much info on it yet as it only came out yesterday but it apparently uses an MS exploit.
I strongly recommend everyone runs an update to their anti-virus as well as the windows update to avoid getting this worm. Activate a firewall too if you can.
Symptoms I have seen so far are that the system slows down big time and eventually reboots automatically (like Blaster did last year). It also disables Norton Anti-Virus and plays havoc to the Internet connection.
Cheers
Charles