Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:36:38 09/22/03
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On September 21, 2003 at 02:20:39, Alastair Scott wrote:
>On September 20, 2003 at 15:09:37, David Mays wrote:
>
>>Two days ago I opened an attachment from what I thought was Microsoft update
>>patch, since i have been in living hell trying to get rid of it, first the virus
>>completely destroyed Norton Internet security, when I try to access Norton I get
>>a phony error exception message, I noticed that suddenly my outlook express went
>>haywire and started randomly mailing to who I don't know. Eventually I was able
>>to uninstall norton security and reinstall, I then ran the virus scan which
>>detected 9 virus which have been cleaned from the system, the damaged to my
>>system that I can so far see is that I have this daily Adult movies pORN iCON ON
>>MY dESKTOP, i HAVE RAN Adware removal about twenty times but the Same 182 bugs
>>found keep reappearing even after i delete them, I discovered they magically
>>appear whenever i start up internet explorer, i do a rescan and the same 182
>>bugs that were there before come back. Also I no longer have access to System
>>Restore, whenever i try to access it the area is completely missing from the box
>>it should be at and I get an error message. Also I cannot even run Regedit from
>>the Startup button. Therefore I cannot even execute the number 1 instructtion
>>on the norton site for removal, which is to turn off system restore. I know
>>this is not the forum for this question but I saw some post from mike byrne he
>>seemed to have the same problem, also i have been getting dozens of emails from
>>microsoft with the virus attached, Help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>One trick is to not run "conventional" virus checkers and firewalls (I mean the
>McAfees and Nortons) as worms and viruses tend to try to disable them because
>they are quite likely to be installed. Their owners also tend to be quicker at
>getting virus signatures out than the big boys; there is a _big_ problem with AV
>protection as the signature has to be in place before the virus strikes. (As you
>found).
>
>I use Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/ - and F-Prot -
>http://www.f-prot.com/.
>
>As Sally points out, Spybot Search and Destroy http://security.kolla.de/ is an
>astonishing package, removing all manner of horrors.
>
>Another little-known package is Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp).
>It is essentially a cut-down version of McAfee AntiVirus, in one file, and
>allows common viruses to be removed very easily. It has just been updated for
>the virus ("Swen") your PC contracted.
>
>That said, if there are 182 files supposedly infected there is (ahem) a real
>problem. It may well be that SS&D/Stinger/anything else cannot completely repair
>such a large and diverse list of files, so the only real solution would be to
>reinstall Windows from scratch.
>
>Finally, I would ditch Outlook Express. It is the easy choice for an email
>package, being there by default, but it is precisely because it is known to be
>there that it is frequently attacked .... and there are far more capable
>packages around anyway! I use Thunderbird (http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/).
>
>(Be sure to remove all the email addresses from the Outlook Express Address Book
>- Thunderbird can import them beforehand).
>
>Alastair
Alastair, that was a great post. Though I am luck enough not to suffer from
such a virus, I thank you for the great info and links!
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