I have an HP computer with Windows XP.
After knowing, for several months, that I have had Blaster on my computer, I am still having problems with Blaster. My Norton antivirus couldn't find the Blaster worm, nor has Symantec's Blaster fix found and fixed it. So, the other evening I downloaded avast! from the internet and ran it. It told me where the virus is (which file) on my computer, but it also woke the thing up, because it started acting up again & I had to do a recovery to get my computer to even respond to me.
Anyway, when I got to where I could, I ran the virus fix program from avast!, but it didn't get rid of it "because it is in a Windows program file," whatever that means.
I need to know what would happen to my computer if I deleted a file named: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TFTP944 That is where the Blaster worm is hiding.
Or does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to get rid of it without totally trashing my computer? (At the moment I have the file in the "chest.")
Thank you for any help you can give me.