Re: Virus? - Disable .EXE, .COM, .LNK and group policy.

From: cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 05/26/05 

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:35:38 +0200

On Wed, 25 May 2005 08:30:05 -0700, "Brian Hoyt" wrote:

>I was trying to figure exactly what this one was, since it is far more
>damaging than any other we have had.

It sounds like a badly-written attempt at a "root kit", doesn't it?
Doing the right sort of root-kitty things, but being too buggy to
really get away with operating in the system depths it has burrowed
into. Reminds my of all the wobbly-graphic crash-o-matic "me-too"
shareware games that came out after Wolfenstein showed the way

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