re: LSA SHELL (export version) error?
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 6:27 am
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Posted by Robbie
(1 messages posted)
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 6:01 pm, Warren Parks wrote:
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>I have personally experienced this problem at least three times after doing fresh
>installs of XP pro on two different laptops, and have found that it CAN be due to
>something other than the W32.Sasser.Worm.
>
>Of course, it is best to have both a firewall (try sygate personal firewall or zonealarm)
>and antivirus installed before you go online to be safe. If you even suspect this
>could be a worm, go to McAfee and get the "stinger" to scan for it and repair as
>needed. Check out: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
>
>However, if you get this error and have reason to believe that it is not the worm,
>then try this- it works for me every time: Open up your network connections, and
>right click on your Local Area Connection to set Properties. Under the Advanced
tab,
>check the box to enable the firewall. For some reason the error never happens again.
>(Yes, I have updated antivirus, stinger, firewall, etc, and there is no "wormsign".
>
>-Warren
Amazingly, that did the job for me! I've run every virus scan I know and even
downloaded the sasser fix tool from symantec... but it wasn't found each time. Then
I tried this fix, and the problem has gone away! Thanks!
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