Re: Help various virus attacks

From: What's in a Name? (spamthis_at_nomail.afraid.org)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:49:00 -0400

tiger-lily wrote:
> I have just reinstalled XP on my daughters laptop because she had so much on
> it. I first of all got a pop up saying "Buffer overflow in mesanger
> service causes unexpected shutdown, virus infection and remote code
> execution. affected softwear. Your system is infected download patch from
> www.updatenow.org" I didn't follow these instructions. instead I went
> online to reinstall NAV. Since then the laptop has gone mad, trying to send
> emails but not getting through. Various pop ups and tools bars adding
> themselves and here are some of the viruses being reported even as Norton
> was trying to update:
>
> bloodhound.w32.ep
> w32.mytub.ah@mm
> Hacktool.rootkit (loads of times)
> download.trojan
> bat.trojan
>
> can someone please help me out here. should I do another complete
> re-install or is this not going to help. Does anyone have any idea what
> happened here.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Michelle
>
>
Another reinstall will not help.It won't get rid of malware already
present.You need to do a format and install to insure there is no
malware present.(I did not like writing that).
See "XP Surviving the first day"
http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/windows/1298.php
If your install disk is not XP service pack 2,you need to download it
and burn to disk. Also make sure you have your Anti-Virus program and
other security programs on a disk. Your machine needs to be ready before
going online with it.Get yourself a router or hardware firewall.At the
very least,make sure windows firewall is up and running before going
online. I have some tips and programs to help you on my pages.
-max 

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