Re: Virus?
From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 03/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:39:25 -0500
Hey - thanks for reporting back! It's educational for the folks reading,
who far outnumber those posting. Your effort may get a number of other
folks to make the effort to scan their systems.
"Brendan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:afd301c40b38$3f924080$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks. Ran the scans, turns out we had:
> Trojan Winshow
> Trojan Tooncom.1
> Trojan Revop.a
> Trojan Esepor.a
>
> Phew! All cleared up now, getting some extra security
> Brendan
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Please go to one or more of the below online scanners and
> perform a scan of your platform
>>then report back your results.
>>
>>Trend:
>>http://housecall.antivirus.com
>>http://housecall.trendmicro.com
>>
>>McAfee:
>>http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp
>>
>>Panda:
>>http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
>>
>>Symantec:
>>http://security.symantec.com/
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>"Brendan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:a6eb01c40a9d$6be6af40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>| I think we have a virus on the computer but I can't seem
>>| to identify which one it might be from the various
> pages I
>>| have looked at like Symantec.
>>| Essentially, some of our software has become inoperable
>>| and of the ones that work, the display is 'blacked out',
>>| so for example you can't see the file menu, the display
>>| bar at the bottom of the screen is obscured, when you
> type
>>| in Word, the letters are blacked out. When you move the
>>| mouse, it leaves black lines behind it.
>>| Over the last weekend, I downloaded an update of Spybot
>>| and AdAware and also an update for Real1 Player and
>>| software to run AVI video, which didn't work so I
> removed
>>| it. If it helps, none of the software was able to remove
>>| files from NewDotNet which I understand came with Real1
>>| Player. I tried to do this through Control
> Panel/AddRemove
>>| software, too.
>>| So, do we have a virus and which one? Or is there is a
>>| another problem?
>>|
>>| Thanks very much,
>>|
>>| Brendan
>>|
>>
>>
>>.
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