Virus Alert

chief · Post by **chief** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:55 am

I have two machines, one Windoze 95, the one I'm on now, I had just updated my virus protection even though it (virus/worm) didn't effect 95 machines. But unfortunately my new laptop with XP wasn't updated yet and would you know that when I went in to update it it got the bug. Fortunately I was able to download patch which gave me time to load virus update and removal tool. Now both of my machines are clean again. Nasty little bug, my first virus ever and I hope my last.

BrubakerII · Post by **BrubakerII** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:54 pm

Have to admit I was struck by this baby last night myself. Run an auto daily upgard on my virus check and a Kerio firewall as well. Dan thing got past me though - go figure. In retrospect those times I disabled the viruscheck in order to get better pings online got me

Hats off to the little p*rck that thought this one up.

Out of interest a virus site I visit claims Microsoft have a fix for this in one of their XP patches. Maybe food for thought there in regards to updating their software as well.

Just completed a full format after getting jack with trying to eradicate the thing. Bummer. Still, everything does run fatser now

Brubaker

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:15 pm

Whew, I surrendered to the 'automatic update' thingy two weeks ago and let XP have it's way with updating and patching my system.

Kinda glad I did it now, I'm not hit yet at least.

Pippin · Post by **Pippin** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:11 pm

I refuse to ever use MS auto updater again. Twice it messed up my registries and rendered my system unbootable.

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:26 pm

Originally posted by Pippin
I refuse to ever use MS auto updater again. Twice it messed up my registries and rendered my system unbootable.

Guess I'm double lucky then.

I think I'll play on the lottery.... :p

Cobra1944 · Post by **Cobra1944** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:51 pm

How is this virus spread?

Can I pick it up merely by getting on the Internet?

chief · Post by **chief** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 10:30 pm

Cobra: go to the MSN site on the WEB and read about the worm, its the best place to get the correct answer and with less confusion on how its spread.

Oh by the way Welcome aboard.

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:57 am

Originally posted by Cobra1944
How is this virus spread?

Can I pick it up merely by getting on the Internet?

Read about it here:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .worm.html

Les_the_Sarge_9_1 · Post by **Les_the_Sarge_9_1** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:48 am

I read that report Marc, but would this worm slow down a system over all.

Last couple of days my own systems seems to have gotten slow sort of. The typing in the post composition box seems choppy for instance.

Or could it be something totally unrelated to this hassle?

BrubakerII · Post by **BrubakerII** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:55 am

Les if you run a full up to date virus scan on your system you will find out if you have it or not.

Brubaker

Cobra1944 · Post by **Cobra1944** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:15 pm

Originally posted by Marc Schwanebeck
Read about it here:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .worm.html

From the aforementioned website:

The worm targets only Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.

I'm still running Win98SE and on a dial-up 56k connection. So I'm guessing I'm safe or at the very least the virus simply isn't interested in me.

Cobra1944 · Post by **Cobra1944** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:17 pm

Originally posted by chief
Cobra: go to the MSN site on the WEB and read about the worm, its the best place to get the correct answer and with less confusion on how its spread.

Oh by the way Welcome aboard.

Thanks Chief!

Blunderbuss · Post by **Blunderbuss** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:31 am

Originally posted by Marc Schwanebeck
No, start spending that 20$ on Norton Antivirus or McAffee . I never had a virus struck me in 2 years now.

$20? Norton Antivirus costs £40 (about $65) over here. McAffee Firewall is £30 ($48).

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 2:24 am

two years ago i bought an hp with free mcafee trial offer. after it expired i had a problem with windows. paid $30? for subscription service. it found a virus, cleaned it out, and saved me $100 trip to local repair shop. it updates all the time and is worth it to me

Blunderbuss · Post by **Blunderbuss** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:09 pm

In response to the virus alert, I've just added 27 critical updates to Windows XP (I hadn't been updating it at all previously). Everything appeared to go smoothly. However, when I ran Strategic Command, I noticed that response times had slowed slightly (e.g. when you reinforce a unit). I don't know why this should be the case. The updates only amounted to 37 MB. Has this happened to anyone else?

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:05 pm

Originally posted by Blunderbuss
$20? Norton Antivirus costs £40 (about $65) over here. McAffee Firewall is £30 ($48).

It´s time you guys switch to the EURO

But then again even the 40 pounds are well invested.

Dazooz2 · Post by **Dazooz2** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:31 am

Blunderbuss, sometimes if you install too many updates, you need to defragment the drive to get it to run smooth again!

Blunderbuss · Post by **Blunderbuss** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:34 pm

My HD is de-fragged and cleaned up. Red Alert 2 is running at the same speed as before. Could it be the turn-based gameplay of SC that is the issue here? I'll try Rise of Nations later on, and see if it's still running at a satisfactory rate of knots. RON is more of a challenge for my PC.

Virus Alert

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XP updates are an improvement?

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