Heard a news story on the car radio one the way home from work today. Some 'techie' had rung in to tell every one running a Windows XP machine to "stay off the internet for the next 24 hours!" by order of M$. Apparently their servers were dishing up malicious code to all XP systems who automatically checked for updates. If you've got the virus your machine would count down from 45 seconds then power off. The mysterious radio 'techie' guy's advice if you have the virus was to wait 24 hours then do a google search for MS Blast. That should tell you what to do next...!?!
This must be a hoax I thought...
But just to be sure (to be sure) I fired up the 266mhz Windows 98 machine in the bedroom and took the mysterious heros advice. Maybe he ment this?
As a result I've spent half the evening trying to get Radio to run on W98 (instead of XP on the laptop) as the Blaster worm only affects W2000 and XP. Got it going now... but for a while there the setup was asking me for a "USERNUM". Not sure what that is but I don't like the sound of it...
10:24:21 PM 
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