Author: Amir Ban
Date: 15:31:53 12/02/99
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On December 02, 1999 at 17:56:14, Eugenio Castillo wrote: >On December 02, 1999 at 17:20:32, Amir Ban wrote: > >> >>The email Eugenio Castillo talks about in the thread "Virus" came from me. I did >>not actually send him an email, rather the virus did. This is the "Explore.zip >>worm" virus. It's bad and devious ! Once you are infected, it will scan your >>email folders and address books and it will GENERATE FABRICATED EMAILS WITH >>ATTACHMENT TO ANYONE YOU'VE EVER KNOWN. >> > >Thank you to write here Amir, else I could have think the next message i have >received from you would be a virus again. > >At 18:00 i observed the virus created me an Explore.exe file in my >c:\windows\system directory and he call it in my "win.ini" file with a line: > >run=c:\windows\system\explore.exe > >I've delete it and now the PC looks well. > I'm not sure this is enough. I recommend to run mkillzip.exe that I sent you. It searches for a lot of things and deletes them if it finds it. It didn't look as simple as removing a win.ini line. "explore" is indeed one of the names the virus calls itself. Amir
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