Re: TONS of virus files

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:31:44 -0400

I agree ...

The shear number suggests that an OS reinstallation is warranted however.

This is all moot if Safe Hex practices and/or FireWall and AV software are not used.

Dave

"taff" <taff@the-valleys.com> wrote in message
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| On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:59:57 -0700, "shcr" <bizeesheri@aol.com> wrote:
|
| >After finally tracking down a possible source of emails with viruses (I
| >studied who they were supposedly from and found the common denominator), I
| >went to my daughter's boyfriends house to clean their pc. At my house we
| >run a hardware firewall, spybot, adaware, spywareblaster, AV etc etc.
| >
| >I get there and start with housecall. Over 4100 infected files! From the
| >locations it appears certain files. xxxx.doc.exe xxxx.jpg.exe were
| >incoming from AIM. The file locations were under AIM screen names. Not
| >sure how that happened.... (they have teenage girl who Aim's). I need to
| >find out if they did indeed come via aim so I can stop that.
| >
| >I delete all those, but there were a ton of files that looked legitimate
| >and were in windows directories so I dared not touch those until I knew
| >more. They were the beagle virus. Two av checkers said beagle.
| >
| >In the end, I left them a note as they were out of town, to save their
| >important files, reformat and reinstall xp, and to NOT get on the internet
| >until I get them all firewalled and protected.
| >
| >I guess my question is was the reformat best idea, not necessarily the
| >easiest way out idea?
| >
|
| Possibly. It is really up to you to decide when the point comes that
| it is more work to clean the machine than it is to re-install
| everything.
|
| Taff.........
|
|
|
|
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