Virus Warning - All Members Please Read

[Rain]

My goodness!
*to put us back on topic - I thought that virus had gotten your Vette!*

Just shot thru the annals of your vette site. Whew! Start wanting to keep it stock and look where ya ended up.

Simply Amazing!

Where have I been? Wish I knew! HAHA
Im only about 20 years younger than you, but have very few lasting memories of the past decade. Not due to drinking or drugs (very minimal drinking and little to no drug use), but due to being a workaholic. Seems I wanted to never say NO to a show, so 250-300 shows a year for the past 13 years have overloaded my mind to where alot of it had no retention. Living show to show and before ya know it, its next year and you forgot to file taxes! haha

Now that fatherhood is coming in December, Im performing much less, trying to keep a journal (if I cant remember it, at least I can read about me - LOL), and finally living life with my eyes open while taking time to take it all in. All helps by having a girl who loves you and supports you by your side!

Enough about my circle -
Great work on the vette - Looks like you've learned by doing and doing it well!

Rain (needs to read more of the CAC inorder to be up to date on projects)

 

[Gorgon]

Wow, too bad I went to bed and missed all this.

I did not bring up the the Mac percentage as a slam against the Mac. On the contrary, I have a lot of respect for the Mac and it's capabilities. OS X I hear is the best OS Apple has put out in a while.

Let me clarify some assumptions you have made. While I am a PC user, I build my own boxes. I am also unhappy with MS and thier business practices. With the exception of some gaming, all my work is done in Linux. My web browser is Mozilla whether I'm in Linux or Windows. For some of my engineering work I am forced to use Windows, not much I can do about it, though I'm trying to get as much stuff working in WINE as I can.

Back to the topic, worms are aggressive programs that are written. Typically they are written to take advantage of security flaws with an OS and are used to gain control of the infected PC. From here the PC can be used for DOS attacks and such. The fact is, regardless of your or my opinion of Mac, that Mac has a very small percentage of the market. If you are going to write a worm to do the most damage it can do, you don't write it to take advantage of a security whole in 4-8% of the computers connected to the web.

This also holds true for Linux. It makes up a small portion of the computers connected to the web. There are a few worms that will take advantage of Linux and Apache, but very few.

If you go back to look at my thread you will see the winky face. It was a joke. I'm sorry to have got you bent out of shape.

Leon

 

[Piet]

MACs..... funny......

We (the company I work for) used to be a Mac shop.... but due to industry pressure, we switched to Windows/ Unix operating environments. Macs are now the territory of:
1) Journalists
2) School children
3) Graphic artists
4) Video editors

Although the last three are starting to come to an end....(for a funny Mac Video )

Note: There are some "GREAT" viruses for the mac (and I am not refering to OS 10.3 :L ) so don't get too complacent...

Our company has a policy for ALL our machines (including people who use thier home machines to connect to work)

1) A HARDWARE firewall (I use the Linksys BEFSR41 ) software firewalls CAN be bypassed... no matter what they say in thier advertising

2) Antivirus software.... I prefer Norton... Macafee is not as good but better than none. On my kids machine I use a free Anti-Virus software called AVG from Grisoft.... works well enough)

It's cheap protection really.....

 

[Gorgon]

Piet, I saw that vid a few days ago. Funny stuff.

 

[Rob]

If you suspect you have the worm on your computer, download this removal tool from Symantec and run it.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

 

[chockey]

I have nortons on my computer at work and I still got a virus, used the free stinger from mcafee and it removed it.

At home my son got the blaster and it played havoc with it, downloaded the patch from microsoft and fixed it, the next day ran the stinger program and found another virus. So i'm running the stinger at least once a day and if on line a lot running it twice.
Its a little more work but worth the effort.

Rob, thanks for the information.

Chuck

 

[Ken]

I ran a scan just the other day, now today I came up with an infected file. McAfee cleaned the .exe file alright, but I'm left with these "Potentially Unwanted Programs" which I've quarantined until I find it's ok to delete them. Tell me it's ok to delete them.

My concern is: "ieaccess2.dll" and "BrowserToolbarLoader.exe", both of which appear in several locations.

HELP!! ;help

 

[Rain]

Ken

Id start with Google.com

typing those file names into Google and doing searches pulled some hits. Looks like you need a spyware blocker. SpyBlaster was suggested on some of the sites, not sure if its free.

If you dont get a hit by searching for the file names, then try virus name. (adware..., dialer...mp3search...)
It might talk about the file that you are researching and let ya know if its part of your browser or OS or a virus/spyware.

The Adware stuff is probably popups or spyware that is reporting your web activity back to some server.

the IEaccess seems to have replicated itself around your hard drive.

Id start by reseraching those file names via Google.com. They will lend much more insight than I can muster after a full day of contracts, promo kits, and CD production and a short 3 hour gig.

Hope I have helped a bit -
Rain

 

[Ken]

... try virus name. (adware..., dialer...mp3search...)
It might talk about the file that you are researching and let ya know if its part of your browser or OS or a virus/spyware.

McAfee doesn't have any info on those. For example:

• SEARCH RESULTS
  We found no records matching the following criteria:
  Virus name beginning with "Adware-Xupiter".
  Please try narrowing your search by using fewer characters.

... the IEaccess seems to have replicated itself around your hard drive.

But what should I do about it? Anything? :confused

Thanks man.

 

[cntrhub]

I have nothing on my computer that is of importance. I don't use any spyware or anti-virus programs. To eliminate spyware, I go to "tools" - "internet options." Then on the general tab, I click "delete cookies" and "internet files." I tested this by using lavasoft and spybot freeware. I started both programs and found cookies planted. I then closed the software without removing the cookies. I went to tools, ran the clicks off, and then returned to both lavasoft and spybot to see if there were any cookies? It showed, "congratulations, no cookies" (paraphrasing). Yes, I do know about some of the hard to get off cookies planted. For that, I go into the registry.
As for a virus, I was hit by the Nimda32 bug a few years back. That puppy sent mail I deleted weeks ago, to everyone all over again. It was sending out the same mail twice a day. I had Norton running at the time. A lot of good that did. I am not that computer savvy. I couldn't figure out how to knock the virus out with Norton's patch? I never could figure out the computer language they walk you through? I Still can't.
So I learned on my own, how to do a low level "Debug" on my OS. I've done it so many times, I can almost write-in the debug codes by memory. It takes less then two and a half hours to debug, reload the OS, printer, scanner, and ISP software.
The computer runs like new everytime I wipe out the hard drive. I've only started to learn about this computer stuff in late 1999. I wish I could say I knew Dos, when you talk about the good old days. I don't know what that is even? Old computer OS is my guess?
There is one thing I do know after getting hit by a bug.....
Bring on those viruses.
Hope some of this helped?.......maybe?

 

[Ken]

:L No.

Everytime though, when I see it, I sure do like your "handle"!

Did I ask you before, is it short for "centerhub"? :cool

_ken

 

[cntrhub]

Hey there Ken,

No, you never asked about the handle. Actually yes, it is short for center hub. But the center hub isn't the wheel company I was thinking of. It's the one piece wheel bearings on the Corvette front spindles, and rear half shafts........thooooose cntrhub's. :Roll

 

[cntrhub]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html#recommendations

fix for latest W32.Sobig.F@mm virus by symantac

 

[Rain]

Did a google.com search for Xupiter

http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/000664.html

 

[Rain]

google.com search for Ie Access

http://allentech.net/parasite/IEAccess.html

 

[Rain]

another on the ieaccess



http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,5538414~root=security,1~start=4~mode=flat

 

[Rain]

Leak Test
http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windowsxp/currentsecurity.htm

 

[jester]

As of this morning Norton had picked up ten of these little buggers trying to get into my system.

 

[Ken]

I'm giving up!

To hell with it all! There is no gravity, the world sucks!

Thanks for the links Rain.

 

[Rain]

News of how business and personal productivity has slowed due to these virues(viri) reminded me of some quotes from Ernie Ball guitar string corp.

They actually got busted on a software licensing lawsuit and dropped ALL microsoft products from their entire company use.
And survived, is saving $, time, and more.

Check it out - They decided not to go with Apple since Microsoft invested 150$ mill. in Apple.
At that time Apple's Market Cap was about 22 billion, and $150 million is only about 2/3rd of one percent (and it was non voting stock too). I will say he was being a flake and just looking for an excuse not to use Apple. Someone must have said "I told you so, you should have used Apple" and he got ****ed and decided to not go with them either, no matter what.

The Link:
http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh