2 Virus Questions
2 questions:
1. Can you recommend an online or free downloadable virus scanner? A long-distance family member of mine has a Klez virus and the virus scanner is just telling her she has it, but won't delete it.
2. A friend of mine has that AOL Instant Messenger virus that sends a message to a person with a link, and when they click that link, it infects their computer and sends it to other people. The only remedies I've read are to delete explorer.exe in safe mode and mess with the registry and other system INI files. Google searches take me nowhere, as the AIM part of the query is taking everything to just AIM pages... even with quotes I pull up nothing
Suggestions?
hagar posted this at 01:08 — 24th October 2002.
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com isnt too bad, but its an online checker, not downloadable apart from a plugin. Atleast you know you have the latest updates when you use it;-)
other then that, I can recommend the symantec free klez removal tool, which will sort out klez in short order. http;//www.symantec.com
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mjames posted this at 04:34 — 27th October 2002.
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That shouldn't happen ... it is undoubtebly caused by your friend running an out-of-date version of AIM and/or failing to run Windows Update. Make sure your friend's system is updated with all the patches first and foremost.
nike_guy_man posted this at 04:39 — 27th October 2002.
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This is a very widespread virus on AIM
I know at least 10 people with it... its a real pain
All these people have Windows Update and antivirus programs up to the second...
Any other thought?
Busy posted this at 06:55 — 27th October 2002.
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I know someone that works for AOL support desk, I'll see if I can get any info from her about it
jammin posted this at 17:40 — 27th October 2002.
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what is the virus name?
i have seen a couple viruses almost exaclty like that.
they generally are kindof a pain to get rid of, but the ones that i have seen also dont behave like a normal virus, they dont infect any files, they just have a program that replicates itself over IM programs.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
nike_guy_man posted this at 17:57 — 27th October 2002.
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I don't know the name of it, no virus scanners pick it up and I can't find info about it
It's not a bad virus, its just annoying to send someone a link every time you send a message... if they click that link then they get it and send it on to more people
Let me know what turns up Busy... thanks
Busy posted this at 22:50 — 29th October 2002.
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Sorry for the delay, forget she has your Sunday and Monday off.
Anyhow she wasn't much help, said there are lots of AIM viruses (scary) out there and they direct people to macfee or symantec (nortons) for removal.
The news virus system have a setting to scan MSN AIM etc like email and downloads.
Sorry couldn't be of any help
jammin posted this at 23:09 — 29th October 2002.
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so does the virus actualy send a link to a webpage? or does it send the file itself?
nike_guy_man posted this at 23:47 — 29th October 2002.
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It sends a link... you click the link and you get the file and everytime you sign on it messages everyone in your list and tells them to click this link and the cycle continues
hagar posted this at 00:24 — 30th October 2002.
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this may be nasty, but check this white paper out for a virus concept
http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html
totally cool:D
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:19 — 30th October 2002.
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I had a virus like that on MSN Messenger once. All I did was re-install Messenger and delete all known instances of the virulent file. Worked just fine.
Don't know if it works for other IM apps, though.
jammin posted this at 04:41 — 30th October 2002.
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well if it is a link that it sends, then write down the adress, and report to the host that they are spreading viruses.
nike_guy_man posted this at 18:43 — 30th October 2002.
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The virus opens up port 80 and places a file on YOUR computer using YOUR IP, so when people click it, they are going to YOUR computer, not a remote host
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