Re: Swen

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:04:05 -0400

I'd strongly recommend running at least a Swen cleaner app from your
favorite antivirus vendor, to remove the remnants of the infection, which
may still be present.

I assume you have been to Windows Update and downloaded and install all
Critical Updates? You need to repeat this, now that you've reinstalled the
OS from scratch.

"Roy Murphy" <celtek@cruzio.com> wrote in message
news:13c2e01c3848e$830967c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I was stupid and ran bchstax.exe received from the bogus
> Microsoft security post. It called for a form to ask for
> details of my pop and smp data which made me suspicious of
> the request.
>
> Even though I didn't fillout the bogus request, I was hit
> by repeats for the request, which popped up about every 30
> seconds while online.
>
> I ran a new McAfee VirusScan and it picked up the
> following infested files:
> C:\Eudora\Attach\Q543391.exe
> C:\Eudora\Attach\bcnstax.exe
> C:\sokyfq.exe
> C:\eicar.com
> C:\Windows\ApplicationData\Mozilla\...???
>
> All 5 files were then deleted. Then I could no longer
> access my ISP! I reloaded Win98SE and normal operation
> returned.
>
> It worked of me! Maybe for you too!
>
> Roy
>

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