Re: group policy disables firewall - virus result
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 11/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:16:17 -0500
From: "furball" <furball@discussions.microsoft.com>
| How do you TURN ON the Acer Notebook OEM Windows XP SP2 Home Edition FIREWALL
| when it has been TURNED OFF by a *digital criminal* who used GROUP POLICY?
|
| What happens is when I try and chance the firewall or Windows Security
| settings it says it is being controlled by Group Policy. Windows XP SP2 Home
| Edition does not have gpedit.msc. You can try Administrative Tools >>
| Computer Management >> Services and I Clicked Startup *Automatic - it was
| *Disabled, then Start. That still is ON but no Firewall.
|
| **windows messages***
| ********************************************
| Windows Firewall -General
| For your security, some settings are controlled by Group policy
|
| "Windows Firewall"
| 'Windows Firewall is turned off. Your network administrator is using Group
| Policy to control these settings.'
| ********************************************
|
| Happened as a result of new unknown virus/malware that includes::::
| In C:\ these files.. (Delete)
| sw.bat
| is.bat
| tb.exe
| xe.exe
| low.exe
| mmxateam.exe
| IELower.exe
|
| In C:\Windows.. (Delete)
| lsass.exe
|
| (Real one is in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\lsass.exe)
|
| Turn off system restore.
|
| Delete all Browser Cache files
|
| Delete all temp files
|
| Use CCleaner if possible
|
| **There may be other unknown files.
|
| It turned off my Auto-updates and Windows Firewall. WinXP SP2 Home
|
| Appears to be Reg Enteries.... (Picked up by Spybot S&D)
|
| Windows Security Center.SP2Update: Settings (Registry change, nothing
| done)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\DoNotAllowXPSP2!
| =dword:0
|
| Windows Security Center.AntiVirusOverride: Settings (Registry change,
| nothing done)
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
| Center\AntiVirusOverride!=dword:0
|
| Windows Security Center.FirewallOverride: Settings (Registry change, nothing
| done)
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
| Center\FirewallOverride!=dword:0
|
| Windows Security Center.FirewallDisableNotify: Settings (Registry change,
| nothing done)
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
| Center\FirewallDisableNotify!=dword:0
|
| Windows Security Center.AntiVirusDisableNotify: Settings (Registry change,
| nothing done)
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
| Center\AntiVirusDisableNotify!=dword:0
|
| Windows Security Center.UpdateDisableNotify: Settings (Registry change,
| nothing done)
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security
| Center\UpdatesDisableNotify!=dword:0
|
| IELower.exe is the compressed file silent installer - it appears as a
| diferent NAME in each case. sw.bat fires the other files..
|
| What happens is when I try and chance the firewall or Windows Security
| settings it says it is being controlled by Group Policy. I go into gpedit.msc
| and I found the specific settings but Windows says it is unconfigured.
|
| **WHAT DOES IT APPEAR TO DO?***
|
| SLOWS YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION TO A CRAWL, SAY A FEW BYTES, WHILE UPLOADING
| FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ~furball .::
For non-viral malware...
Please download, install and update the following software...
Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.
I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.
BHODemon
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
For viral malware...
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kaspersky and McAfee Anti Virus Command
Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
* * * Please report back your results * * *
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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