Re: Need help on home network with recovery from rbot.gen virus

Hello Dennis

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I suggest you post your query in the General Discussion section and let the
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very clever people there with much knowledge! ;)

Dave

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"denzel" <denzel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your replies.

The original virus was found and cleaned by Windows Defender. I'm not
sure of the exact syntax anymore, but it was identified as win32/rbot.gen
or winsys32/rbot.gen. And I already agree that it's not much to go on.

I have the original file also, Bit Defender recognizes it as
GenPack:Generic.Sdbot.4502EEEF. More specific, but I'm not sure that
provides me any specifc help.

With so many viruses out there, I never expected a specific solution that
fit only this specific virus. I did internet searches and AV website
searches (and newsgroup searches) first to see if there was any
information available. I believe in self-help whenever possible. You
learn more that way. The only information I found wasn't very exact
although a couple of websites did mention changing of registry values such
as anonymoususer. This information looked more XP versus Vista as the
values didn't match anything I thought was close enough to change.

The best I hoped for was someone that had seen similar problems for
certain classes of viruses that do "...whatever..." and could give me some
pointers as to what to look for. Or someone pointing me to another
website or forum that was more suited to my problem.

System recovery did not go back far enough to restore before this problem
(about a month). And I've reloaded OS's on machines before; it's just
time consuming. I know it's a cure-all for a lot of things, but I thought
I'd look for an easier solution first. Right now it just affects my
ability to share files and printers with my daughter's machine.

In looking through the networking groups, I see that a lot of people are
having trouble sharing between XP and Vista machines. My concern would be
that some recent patch during the time I had the virus is the real source
of my network problem. I'd be pretty dejected if I reloaded Vista and the
updates and all my other programs...and then had the same problem.




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