Virus Help

[Rochard]

This morning it seems half of our computers go hit with a virus. We lost no data and I was able to kill it before it did any damage.

We are running two kinds of anti virus protection, updated Yesterday, and it wasn't caught. I noticed my comptuer was running slow and started looking around. I quickly saw my main drive was full with exe files with odd names - thousands of them.

Anyone know what this is?

[TheFrog]

Loads of viruses do that to spread themselves, a Norton full scan and an Ad-Aware scan should get rid of it

[Rochard]

I just noticed I can't see any of the anti-virus sites such as Norton or McAfee.......

[TheLegacy]

You can do some free scans with these sites

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp

http://www.sarc.com

go to the "check for security risks"

hopefully that will help you out my friend

[BruceM]

Looks like I got hit with the same thing. I'm also currently unable to send or receive any email. My Norton AntiVirus autoprotect and the email checking were both disabled. I already ran Adaware which I don't think found anything and I'm running a full scan with Norton Antivirus now. (It has found 1 so far)

I have the same thing with not being able to connect to the anti-virus sites. Also I had to reboot a couple times when I tried to enable AutoProtect. It just froze.

Scan should be finished pretty soon, I'll let you know if it fixed it.

[gornyhuy]

If you cant get to norton, mcafee, etc, check your hosts file...

then run adaware, spybot search & destroy, and "hijack this"

[Theo]

sounds like blaster, i have noticed that when your pc is infected the antivirus doesnt trace it

try the small program the norton site has,it works in such cases
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...r/FixBlast.exe

not sure if it will help,but worths a try

[jimmyf]

Originally posted by Soul_Rebel
sounds like blaster, i have noticed that when your pc is infected the antivirus doesnt trace it

try the small program the norton site has,it works in such cases
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...r/FixBlast.exe

not sure if it will help,but worths a try

he may not be able 2 down load it, think he said he couldn't get to any of the anti-virus sites,

email it 2 him

[acctman]

get F-Prot, and reboot your computer into safe mode (hit F8 when the hahahahahahas screen comes up) then run the scanner.

[BruceM]

Well the only virus found on my machine was this one:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...yteverify.html

But it's still not fixed.

Soul Rebel - we can't get to those virus sites unfortunately...I tried with Netscape too, blocked.

Looking up my hosts file now...