Re: Security Issue, or Just Paranoid?
- From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:24:51 -0500
From: "SueInCincy" <SueInCincy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| I appreciate your quick replies, and I don't think I made myself clear about
| how many different ways we have tried to get this disk cleared.
|
| First I tried the system recovery media. That worked one time, but I didn't
| really understand what I was up against, and the bad guys got back in before
| I could download the Windows security updates, etc. The next two times I
| tried that method I had evidence of the bad guys even before I downloaded any
| files or hooked up to the internet.
|
| Then I tried using the "long reformat" option from a Windows XP disc, and
| that appeared to have worked once.
|
| Then, I tried the FDisk command from DOS, and then a couple of different
| DOD-approved products for wiping a hard drive clean that booted from the CD.
| Then I hired a specialist in security matters, who proceeded to use a machine
| I knew was "dirty" (and he insisted I was just paranoid) to get the WEP keys
| for my wireless network.
|
| I have never used anything by OEM software and/or downloads from OEM
| websites.
|
| I don't know how they are doing this.
|
| I really do appreciate your prompt response, but I really do want you to
| consider that this is something you haven't seen before.
|
| I have spent hundreds of hours studying this issue during the past five
| weeks, and my daughter told me yesterday "she wants her mommy back." I don't
| see anyone describing anything that comes close to this experience.
|
| Thanks again for your help.
..
Don't use wireless ! If you must do networking, go wired.
Make sure you use a router. Specifically block TCP and UDP ports 135 ~ 139 and 445 on that
Router. Even better would be a full implementation of a FireWall on that Router.
| I appreciate your quick replies, and I don't think I made myself clear about
| how many different ways we have tried to get this disk cleared.
And you still haven't. If you want help you must be specific. Of the 10's of thousands of
infectors only a few dozen are Boot Sector Infectors and they will survive a reformat.
Nowhere do I see anything posted about the use of anti virus software ! Hell, for all I
know you might have had the Kriz or Chernobyl viruses and they could have wiped the data
from your disks.
You also did reply about my information on SpyBot and the DSO False Positive declaration.
It doesn't matter if I haven't "seen" what you had before. If you practice Safe Hex and
take precautionary measures then you won't need corrective measures and Mommy can be Mommy.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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