Re: HELP!!! PLEASE!!! old virus reinfestation????
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 02/28/04
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:20:20 -0500
Michele:
Since it is a corporate PC, all I can suggest is that you perform a web based scan of your
platform.
You *must* work with your IT department whether you think their competency is in question or
not. That is their job, it is your companies PC and not yours to make decisions on or
about. My company has very strict rules about the use of the computers we provide our
personnel and the most important one is that the users can not, under *any* circumstances
install any software with the advice, assistance and/or permission of the MIS/IS group.
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/
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.
So realize that YOUR actions will now cause your company to receive the Swen worm because
you felt you had to bypass your MIS/IS group.
Dave
"Michele" <m n a s h @ co.kern.ca.us> wrote in message
news:376301c3fd86$652ed980$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| I know this is going to be long but I need to give you a
| little back ground to work with. I am on a networked PC
| (Windows 2000)and my email is on a group server. Awhile
| back my pc was infected with virus/trojan and it look
| like a hacker was even getting into it. It had to have
| the hard drive completely reformatted and and everything
| redone. My problem is that when this happened my
| groupwise email started having problems a remote mailbox
| was setup on my pc and I did need one there and my sent
| mail folder went missing. I won't say it was deleted
| because I can find the items I sent but I just can pull
| the folder up and I had to create a new one. This
| happened the same time all the RPC, Telephony and remote
| procedures started operating on a windows 2000 operating
| system that runs over a T1 line. I started disconnecting
| from the network everynight but one night I forgot and I
| don't know exactly what happened but all of a sudden I
| came in one day after and my harddrive had been
| reformatted and repartitioned my CDRW & CDR drives were
| in constant boot state with nothing in the drive, and I
| could no longer access my email or shared network
| directory. I turned the PC over to the IT guy and try to
| convince them I was hacked or had a virus but it was
| clear they did not believe me because they said they had
| the latest update of Virus scan running and it was being
| updated daily. Now I have my PC back but the problems
| started again. Progams I didn't install are showing up,
| things are changing on my configuration constantly and I
| files that say that they are one thing but on closer look
| they are in fact commands and other actions totally
| different. Is there any why that the old virus could
| have reinfested itselfs self again on my pc and go
| undetected because the IT guys here say that if I had a
| virus/trojan it would be dectected because we get updated
| on a daily bases. If anyone out there can help me with
| this it would be great. Now that I using XP it is even
| harder to convince the IT staff that somethings going on
| and even harder to get my work done.
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