Re: sysconf.exe
anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 02/03/04
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:53:09 -0800
Hi, thanks for the advice. Sorry, even I know I should
have mentioned that I'm running XP Home. (On a Sony Vaio
Laptop!) It's a kw(?)bot worm from Kazaa apparently
(which I've stopped using as of yesterday.) I'm using
McAfee Virus Scan Home Edition. Wonders if viruses on
Kazaa are the revenge of The Industry...
>-----Original Message-----
>It would REALLY help if you told us the NAME of the
virus, the anti virus application and
>the OS. I have to "assume" you have WinXP.
>
>1) Disable System Restore
>
http://vil.nai.com/vil/SystemHelpDocs/DisableSysRestore.ht
m
>2) Reboot your PC into Safe Mode
>3) Using your AV software, perform a Full Scan of
your platform and clean/delete any
> infectors found
>4) Restart your PC and perform a "final" Full Scan
of your platform
>5) Re-enable System Restore and re-apply any System
Restore preferences,
> (e.g. HD space to use suggested 200 ~ 400MB),
reboot PC.
>6) Create a new Restore point
>7) Please report back your results
>
>In addition:
>If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged,
email address then you have invited the
>Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.
>
>The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is
called this is because the Swen worm
>harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It
has an engine that allows it to post
>itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own
email engine. From the list of
>email addresses that it has harvested, it will then
email itself to those addresses.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
><the_wanderer@manx.net> wrote in message
news:8bff01c3e9dd$47daed40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>| My virus protection says the sysconf.exe file in my
>| Windows/system32/ file is infected with a Trojan, and
>| that I must remove the file and replace it with a clean
>| copy. What is this file? How serious is this? And how
do
>| I get a clean copy of sysconf.exe in the first place?
>| I use computers for the net and word processing, I'm
not
>| an IT student so please can someone help me...
>
>
>.
>
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