 New Virus Kills Music Files, Nopir.B worm wipes out all mp3 and com files |
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 Apr 27 2005, 02:35 PM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 262 Joined: 2-October 04 Member No.: 1,393  |
I suspect some music artist hired somone to create it or it is distributed by the riaa.
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Apr 28 2005, 02:44 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 11-April 05 From: 10 inches from the computer screen Member No.: 5,518 |
QUOTE So does it only destroy illegal music files or eradicates the whole collection of music? Yes, it destroys any file that ends in .mp3, effectively, your entire collection. Sucks, init? QUOTE I suspect some music artist hired somone to create it or it is distributed by the riaa. Haha. If it was distributed by the RIAA, that'd be like shooting themselves in the foot, wouldn't it? I mean, to have the worm destroy the legal files too? I ripped all my CDs into iTunes to put into my iPod, so they're all legal, so it's kinda nonsensical/ridiculous to wipe my collection out, since I did nothing wrong. |
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Apr 28 2005, 03:02 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 16-April 05 Member No.: 5,741 |
QUOTE(tatatee @ Apr 25 2005, 09:28 AM) http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/new...0504250004.html Not only does it not differentiate between legal and illegal mp3 files, it also doesn't let you reboot your computer. So far, it's been circulating only in Europe, but those in the US and Asia had better take caution as well. It's only a matter of time...  hmmm never heard about it... but how do i get it?? i live in Holland and it is really close to France:(. what can i do to protect it. i have service pack 2 and zonealarm.. need more?? |
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Apr 28 2005, 03:33 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 11-April 05 From: 10 inches from the computer screen Member No.: 5,518 |
Well, it's designed to look like a DVD cracking hack thing so unless you were interested in those, you're safe I guess.
 I use AVG and Ad-aware. |
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May 4 2005, 10:24 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 606 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 |
o well, I'm pretty lucky that I'm not gonna get hit...
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May 4 2005, 11:41 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 10-October 04 Member No.: 1,637 |
gee i used m4a aiff or wav.. very rarely used of mp3 nowaday
 so shouldnt be problem i thought. but intersetin to cheq this out 
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Oct 22 2007, 03:12 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 319 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
Any of you guys facing this New Folder.exe virus ??
New Folder.exe Virus It just creates an empty exe files (looks like a folder with the name of the parent folder)... it just spreads itself with all the thumbdrives and other shared memory. Will occupy your harddisks space so much... remedies welcome... SSVICHOST.EXE This is another virus that disables cmd prompt, task manager, regedit, msconfig and other important system functionalities. It also slows the system drastically by running other applications in the background. Help me please.... these two drives me mad.... Norton and Avg do not detect this virus. One solution works...like booting windows in safe mode and deleting all the viruses... but it comes again when some drive is inserted. Help!! Help!! |
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Oct 22 2007, 03:34 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 504 Joined: 26-January 06 From: New Durham, NH Member No.: 17,651 |
I was going to reply to this topic, then spun off and made my own topic on how to avoid and get rid of viruses.
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Oct 22 2007, 05:34 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 14-October 07 From: ERROR 404 Member No.: 51,575 |
I don't understand what these people gain out of breaking millions of computers.
Anyway, all my virus checkers are up to date, so I should be ok. |