This virus has me stumped

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The_Librarian said:
There are far worse worms than this one out there.

Got such a worm on my network last year - and none of the AV programs picked it up. Still undetectable by most AV scanners today.

Only way you'll know you're infected is, is that your firewall logs will show a lot of outgoing packets.

Symptoms on Windoze is that there's a blue screen during which you reset your pc, and nothing further happens, except that your PC is now a zombie, hunting for other PC's to infect.

The only way to combat this menace is to have firewalls enabled all round.
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I think I had one of these on my wife's PC which probably started on another PC, my labelling PC for my business which hardly gets used, by a guest inserting a Flash Drive which came out of their laptop.

I had to format that infected PC in the end as I simply couldn't fix it, reset the Master Boot Record to be safe, installed my labelling program on the Administrator Account with a password, installed KIS2011 and set a password for that so as to prevent anything or anybody from exiting or uninstalling itself and only allow guests now to use the Guest Account. And how I found out it was the flash drive, well the person who infected the machine was here today and innocently inserted the flash drive and voilà KIS complained bitterly and cleaned it immediately. LOL.
Shall I tell this person their Laptop is also infected. Hmmm, no, probably will have to fix it then. :P

To think my own PC runs day and night 365 days a year, no viruses or issues since 1998. Obviously not the same PC, but the same user. :)
 
boramk said:
Guys, is it just me, or have I never had any of these viruses since I got Vista/7? These flash transerrable viruses
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Yup Windows 7 autorun is disabled making these virusses not working, unless your bright enough to probably go and manually run the virus exe in the hidden folder.

As for the opening poster.. Get Malwarebytes as stated in this thread and also look at getting
Dr.Web CureIt (Free tool + - 60mb) >> But try MalwareBytes first will clear it in most cases, otherwise get Dr.Web CureIt and run a full scan.

Also get a proper anti-virus AVG free and Avast is really not that great.

I use Panda Global Protection myself, but there is also other good programs like Kaspersky, Bit Defender and Nod32.. and please also don't waste ur time or money on Norton / McAfee both overpriced pieces of junk
 
auriga1000 said:
use panda usb vaccine .it's totally free. disables autorun.
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Yes this is a must for people still stuck on Windows XP (Maybe Vista as well).. Lucky that Windows 7 autorun is disabled and don't have to worry about these type virusses.

As for the worst virus I had recently.. I must say it has to be Virut, which I had middle of last year... I damages / modifies any exe which it finds and only tool back then that could clean it without deleting that files was Dr.Web CureIt. I propable reloaded Vista about 4 times in 1 week and the virus kept coming back before I found a tool that picked it up, most AV only picked up as unknown threat.
 
SomeoneEls said:
Downgrade to Linux!
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:p

personally i use bitdefender,Avira Anti-virus and a few other programs.I have never picked up a virus except the one that makes my mouse spin randomly (it's back).I want to format my PC but i don't want to install everything again.My windows cd is also gone (pc been running for 4 years without format)I wanted to install linux but after seeing the simplicity i decided to stay with XP.(ppl also complain about windows Vista having a few bugs and not being able to run some software and games)
 
Pretty much all my friends have this virus or a similar one at school. I just stick it in my laptop and run a cmd on my desktop to remove Autorun.inf from all devices currently plugged in (excluding my DVD drive).

Also came across a virus which took all the files on someone's iPod, hid them, created "shortcuts" to these folders, removed the shortcut icon, and made the shortcuts point to the virus which was also in a hidden folder on the iPod. Absolutely impossible to remove. Had to just format both the machine and the iPod.
 
Think of your pc like a girl, if you going to let every user come along and put their flashdrive up your usb you probably going to catch something :p
 
stroebs said:
Also came across a virus which took all the files on someone's iPod, hid them, created "shortcuts" to these folders, removed the shortcut icon, and made the shortcuts point to the virus which was also in a hidden folder on the iPod. Absolutely impossible to remove. Had to just format both the machine and the iPod.
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You are giving the virus more credit than what it is worth ... it did not do nearly all of that. It just hides the originals, and dumps a copy of the virus, unhidden & disguised as the original files. It is also not 'impossible' to get rid of. 9 out of the 10 times a virus can be removed quite easily if you have a bit of patience.
 
ld13 said:
You are giving the virus more credit than what it is worth ... it did not do nearly all of that. It just hides the originals, and dumps a copy of the virus, unhidden & disguised as the original files. It is also not 'impossible' to get rid of. 9 out of the 10 times a virus can be removed quite easily if you have a bit of patience.
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The only reason I couldn't get rid of it was because the guy who owned the iPod had tried to open the folders on it (thus putting the virus onto the PC), the PC did not have antivirus software and I did not have the admin password to load antivirus software onto it. My boss also told me to just leave it so his brother could sort it out, and he did... By lazily formatting it.
 
For all those of you thinking Windows 7 is immune to viruses; make no mistake. Unlike OSX, which virus-writers never bothered with making stuff for, Windows 7 will very soon have legions of viruses written for it.
 
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