Virus festival?

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Unfortunately, I had the Spybot virus- it completely disables Task Manager, MSConfig, Norton's LiveUpdate and Registry Editor, and several other utilities/programs. Not only that, but the .exe file that it installed on my computer would replicate (using a randomly-generated name) each time I got rid of it. I've spent two days fighting it- FINALLY just got rid of it. I've dealt with several types of virus (my in-laws open and re-send everything they get via e-mail, and, unfortunately, my wife has a tendency to "open first, ask questions later" ), and this is by FAR the worst I've ever had to contend with...

Wow-- that just sucks! So how did you resolve it?

 

[Kryndal Levik]

I ran Process Viewer (an application which wasn't disabled) to show all running processes, and found (and disabled) the .exe file that was disabling everything... I then used MSCONFIG to look for the files were both causing and resulting from the infection. I disabled all of those, as well. I then ran REGEDIT to find and remove all references to the trojan from the registry, and deleted all of the files that I could find from my system folders. Finally, I ran Norton- which FINALLY found one of the darned Spybot files. All in all, it probably took me 5-6 hours over the past few days to figure through the problem...

 

[EricNoah]

This has been a big day for spam (getting through my spam blocker, even) and for e-mails with viruses attached for me. Fortunately Norton seems to be catching everything, but yeah, it's been a weird e-mail day here too.

 

[Emiricol]

Glad it wasn't just be. I was getting virused emails from IBM offices located around the world! People I never heard of.

Funky.

 

[thundershot]

Thank God I wasn't the only one who got those weird e-mails. They looked like bounced messages to people I never knew or had in my address book...



Chris

 

[Wippit Guud]

Just be glad these things are easily fixabe.

There was a virus in the early 90's which went into the hard drive crontoller program and subtracted 1 from his drive head map. So when it went ot the beginning of the hard dick on a read cycle, instead of going to 0, it went to -1, and left the disks.

Instant hard drive death.

As for detecting Blaster, if your computer shuts down every 2 minutes, don't bother looking for the exe, you have it

- so sayeth the internet tech support guy getting overleaded on the phones this last week

 

[Green Knight]

Re: [OT] Virus festival?

I've recieved over 30 viruses in my email today...

Am I just having a really strange day, or is anyone else getting hit by this right now?

They say things like:

"Your application"
"Have a good day"
"Your Request"
"Approved"
"That Movie"

and an assortment of 'fake' bounce messages, and so on...

You're not the only one. I had to delete over 20 virus-laden e-mails, today. Of course, it probably didn't help that I replied to the first one with an expletive filled e-mail. All I accomplished, there, was letting the spammer know that that was an active mailbox.

 

[William Ronald]

I received several similar e-mails today. Oddly, I received e-mails indicating that I had somehow sent out e-mails that were blocked. Yet I update Norton Antivirus regularly and ran a scan Sunday and today.

I also made sure to get a patch for the blaster worm.

Too many people have too much time on their hands.

 

[spacecrime.com]

I've been getting that too, William. My guess is that they're bounces from a mailing list I'm on.

I've been getting lots of viruses today, but almost all of them are going to my email address for go-related stuff. I figure some folks on the American Go Association mailing list got infected, that the virus is now merrily sending stuff out to everybody on the list, and that some other people's email systems are detecting and bouncing the virus back to the list. Funsies.

 

[Frostmarrow]

It's sobig.f

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm