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Subject: Re: Q about virus and cleanup (attn Chris) (semi-OT)

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 15:35:56 06/03/05

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On June 03, 2005 at 05:56:52, Michael Diosi wrote:

>On June 03, 2005 at 05:42:41, Michael Yee wrote:
>Hello Michael,
>
>>Sorry if this has already been discussed...
>>
>>I have a couple questions regarding the virus embedded in Fafis 2.0:
>>
>>(1) Is it likely that my system is fine considering my antivirus software caught
>>the suspicious newly-created file before it was run? I can't find any other
>>traces (e.g., modified hosts file, modified registry keys, etc.)
>
>Port 7000 needs to be closed to our knowledge.

Do you mean that the worm/virus is running a program or service that opens port
7000? (If so, do you know what it's called?)

Thanks for the help. It's been confusing for me--I'm nearly sure that my system
is fine, but I'd like to be 100% sure.

Michael

>>(2) I'm not familiar at all with exe compression/encryption. But isn't it
>>possible that the worm attached itself to the clean fafis exe first (and without
>>the author's knowledge)--*before* the author compressed? The author could have
>>tested the uncompressed exe for a while before finally packaging it up for
>>distribution. (Note : It still would apparently be the first reported case of
>>this worm attaching itself to files, but that's not what I'm asking about.)
>
>To our knowledge it must have beed done manualy. There is no way the virus/worm
>does this automaticly.
>
>>Thanks,
>>Michael
>
>Best,
>
>Michael



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