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Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
Haha, lucky me - I had planned a reformat of my computer for the upcoming school year...
Rather than dealing with the virus, I spent 16 hours:
backing up data from E: to C:
reformatting E: using gvt standard write
backing up data from C: to E:
spending 3 hours taking down settings
reformatting C:
reinstalling win xp pro
install sp 1 & dl all critical updates
install 15gb of software
copy back C: data on E: to C:
yeah... that was a nicely planned reformat so things went smoothly and everything felt the same the next day 
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Gotta love all the work to reformat
I took me a total of about 2 days (reformatting took 2 hrs., the rest was from procrastinating).
If I ever get infected w/ a virus, I'd just re-format (unless the virus does that for me). But luckly I won't get this one (so many patches).
Amanda: Doesn't your school have any firewall of some sort, or can they block the ports that MSBlast attacks? I know that this is what my ISP did (dreadedly it slowed my connection 1/2 the time).