Re: gaelicum.a
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 11/28/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:36:00 -0500
From: "erichard777" <erichard777@discussions.microsoft.com>
| I have a virus that keeps coming back. (I am running windows xp with SP2. I
| have windows update in auto-mode and have a broadband connection.)
|
| This has been going on for several months. Whenever I get it again, I
| download AVG's vcleaner.exe (I have to redownload it because this virus will
| always immediately infect vcleaner.exe.) then I immediately go into safe mode
| and run vcleaner. (after I check it with AVG) And I also run AVG again.
| This will heal all the infected files, and get rid of it for a week or so.
|
| But then it will show up again.
|
| Btw, I have turned off system restore and then turned it back on again
| several times after the scan, but that has never helped. I have also been
| disconnecting the internet connection at night, but that has not made any
| difference either.
|
| I have off and on also researched the Internet, including newsgroups and
| blogs, about this virus and have found no way to stop getting it. I have,
| however, found a lot of horror stories about this virus-- it continues to
| mess up a lot of computers.
|
| AVG says this about this virus:
| .....................................
|
| Win32/Gaelicum.A
| alias: Win32.Tenga, W32.Licum, W32/Gael
|
| It`s parasitic infector and internet worm.
|
| Virus spreads itself exploiting Buffer Overrun In RPC Interface
| vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026.
|
| When the worm is launched, it infects .EXE files on all accessible drives.
|
| Virus also tries to download trojan horse from the internet.
|
| Healing:
| Please download Vcleaner utility.
| ................................................
|
| So this is my question for this forum:
|
| When I read Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026 it offers me no help,
| because I already have SP2. This virus, in my opinion, is a SECURITY
| problem. Is there nothing Microsoft can offer as a continual defense against
| this virus?
|
| Richard
|
There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus
This is a TRUE virus in all respects in that it infects other executable file by appending
itself to EXE files.
The good news is that the EXE files can be cleaned. The bad news is if an infected EXE file
handle is help open by the OS the a cleaner amy no clean the file and there is a possibility
of reinfection.
The following tool provides four AV scanners that will target the W32/Gael worm. When you
run the utility it will bring up a menu. If you hit the letter 'H' or 'h' it will bring up
a help file. Read the help file especially about the part of using a DOS Boot Disk or a DOS
Boot Disk with NTFS4DOS.
The objective is this...
In Windows Normal Mode, download the scanners for at least McAfee and Sophos but don't run
the scanners.
Create a DOS Boot Disk on another PC (if the PC uses NTFS you will also need NTFS4DOS on the
DOS Boot Disk).
Then you will boot from the DOS Boot Disk and run the provided McAfee and Sophos batch
files. That should effectively clean you PC.
The PDF Help File will [provide you with the names of the LOG files that were created for
the DOS anti virus scans.
After you boot into Windows, use the utility to clean any ZIP disk, USB Flash drives or
other Read/Write media that may have EXE files that were used when the PC was infected.
This will make sure you don't get re-infected.
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
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.
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.
* * * 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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