On Tue, 04 May 2004 08:33:32 GMT, Piotr Makley <pmakley@mail.com>
wrote:

I was installing Windows 2000 for the first time over the weekend on a
brand new machine. (Lucky me)

The minute I installed and connected to internet via DSL my machine
started to give me the countdown warning.

I thought I had bought a hunk of junk and had a hardware problem.

Fortunately, doing a search on lsass.exe lead me to the conclusion
that I was fighting off that same attack everyone else was. I had to
beg Verizon to re-enable my dial-up service.

Within minutes of connecting to the internet I got two worms not just
one. I think Verizon's servers must have been infected.

I just count myself lucky that I got things fixed rather quickly and
now have Norton Personal Firewall and Anti-virus doing their thing.

I had no idea you could get a worm on your machine without opening
email. Maybe next time I will install the firewall software before I
connect to the internet for the first time.

-RJ