Read Latest Entries..: (Post #14) by psychiccyberfreak on Feb 6 2006, 01:39 AM. (Line Breaks Removed)
yeah they knew about this a while ago. Thanks for the info, but most antivirus programs update themselves. They talked about this on the podcast "security now!" which you can check out at http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Better get your anti-virus updated by 3rd Febuary before seeing your files go missing. It's kindda scary worm if not handled properly. The date is near so get updated fast.
The best thing is that everyone should be carefull before opening any attachment! They must be sure that the attachment they have recieved is from there well wishers. Secondly, they must use an antivirus and if they dont have one then they can use Trendmicro's free virus scanning utility -> http://housecall.trendmicro.com
And it is best that they use well known web based email services because they scan your email with antiviruses
i've reported this in my blog january 23rd... guess nobody from trap17 is reading my blog.
anyway, from my blog, there is a free tool you can use to disinfect your machines before the deadline passes as mentioned above. HOWEVER, first reports of damage from this worm has been circulating. WHY, even though it's not yet the 3rd of February?
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The destructive deadline of the Nyxem.E worm is based on the clock of the infected machine. So if you're infected and your clock is not set right, things could start to happen at any time - even though the official activation time is the 3rd of the month. We've already received first reports from users who've had files on their system overwritten by the worm.
When Nyxem activates, it will overwrite all of your DOC/XLS/PPT/ZIP/RAR/PDF/MDB files. This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives! Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.
The number of machines that have been infected by this worm is over 300,000. Many of those have been disinfected already, though. But thousands of computers will get their files overwritten on February 3rd - most of them in India, Turkey and Peru.
so there you go, get started cleaning up your system, especially if you are experiencing system freezes lately.
Thank you for the update. I am lucky. I was surfing a window poped up and said that my Virus scan deleted and cleaned a file infected with a Trogan. So I was lucky that time. It is sad when you have to have a scanner to protect your computer from the things you surf on. Like the Internet. I just did a scan two days ago, so I should be safe. Thanks for the news.
It's already February 3 here... 12:58AM, actually, and I'm happy to know that I'm very much safe. Funny that I read this topic just when it was 12AM though... Anyway, I'd still keep my eye out for it just in case March 3 comes up... I haven't updated my antivirus software for ages. I need to get a new version.
Well I will make sure to tell everyone I know to be careful with their email. I hope I don't end up catching it. I already have enough spam email though I don't think I will open that one. I only open it from places I know and sometimes even then I delete them. Thanks for the warning.
It didn't happen to me either. A few hours later will be 4th Feb. Hopefully nothing will happen. I've updated my AntiVirus as well and it didn't prompt findings of new viruses. Probably it didn't reached to me. Or probably it'd bypassed the AntiVirus and now inside my computer already. A full system scan shows nothing. So just hope nothing will happen to my computer.
Here In India all the Newspapers and media issued a warning to the public about this Virus and adviced not to use internet for 1 day. Will this virus stop working after 3rd Feb?
yeah they knew about this a while ago. Thanks for the info, but most antivirus programs update themselves. They talked about this on the podcast "security now!" which you can check out at http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Ive heard on a Podcast with Leo Laport and Mr Grc ...(i forgot his name) lol .... that its a descrutive virus for .doc Microsoft Office or Spreadsheet like .xls .csv .dbf etc and fill those files with useless numbers and letter that ,make then your data unavailable..... is anyone is yet infected.... ?
According to reports nearly 1 lakh computers were affected in India. This led to a loss of about 86 Crore Rupees (approx. 19.5 Million US Dollars). But most of them have taken preventive action so this has reduced in numbers otherwise the number would have double or tripled.
ok, so a few days ago I was away from msn and when i got back i had a message from a friend on
msn..it was a link that said somthing along the lines of "hey is this really you" and listed my
email address..I clicked on the link stupidly and when i did that I got a window that said "run or
save" i didn't click on either of those, I actually restarted my laptop, but since i did that,
every time i log on I get that run/save message popping up. I am unable to fully use msn on my
computer. I cannot receive webcams and my msn is freezing frequently. /mad.gif" style="verti....
I clicked on a fake instant message from my daughter 4 months ago. Clicked on a link that was
supposed to take me to a site to find out if anyone has blocked me. Daughter & I just talked the
week before & discussed whether my son was blocking me. I'm in a computer nightmare. Damn
virus, or whatever has taken over my pc.. Administrative rights.....won't let me install my new
printer...won't allow me to reinstall windows, pc shuts down during process. How do I get my
life back?....
I want to lnow which one is the best anti-virus program because i'm having serious problems
regarding all these viruses and spywares.So i want to know which is the best one around which i
should use....
Hi Guys, Lately I have had this same annoying pop-up dialog box pop up that says: QUOTE NOTICE:
If your computer has been running slower than normal, it may be infected with Viruses, Adware, or
Spyware. Adwareremover2007 will perform a quick and completely FREE scan of your system for
malicious programs. Download AdwareRemover2007 for FREE now! I have scanned it with Avira
AntiVirus and ad-aware2007. They both returned infected files, which i deleted, but i still have the
pop-ups. Any ideas?....
Hi I think I have a spyware infection. The symptoms are as follows: "Windows Antivirus" message
screen keeps on popping up from an icon on the task bar announcing that windows has detected spyware
and suggesting downloading of antispyware. Occasionally another "Windows security Alert" window also
pops up warning that the system is making copies of system files, etc. I am also unable to access
control panel. Can somebody help ? /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D"
border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />....
Well I get a lot of viruses, and I must ask: What is the very best 'free' virus protection
software? I have McAfee and Avira AntiVir, but I was just wondering if there was better.....
Sources have warned that the following links, or similar, should not be "touched" or linked to.
Your Anti-virus will issue a severe warning if you click to these links. It would appear that the
common element is the filename in the link which follows the web protocol h t t p. h {double t} p
{colon} //xxthebestxx.hut2.ru/ r57.txt h {double t} p {colon} //www.hdcs.org.np/ r57.txt
h {double t} p {colon} (a file on your account) %20script:void(0) h {double t} p {colon}
//turkey.dnsdc9.com/~activ7/ r57.txt h {double t} p {colon} //turkey.dnsdc9.co....
There's a new virus nowadays that attacks computers via Skype. If you have it - it's
possible that you'd get an email FROM ONE OF YOUR CONTACTS with a message: "Have you seen the
last pix of >? {URL}". Thus the virus spreads across your contacts, and then, if you click on the
link - your computer will be infected. Beware - the epidemic only started a few days ago. If you
get that message from someone you know - ask a person, if they really sent it (a bot would not have
a logical answer ready for that). Take care, abminara.....
Well if you all remember a few months back I made a topic about the skype worm here , well it seems
to have busted out two clones one for ICQ and for MSN. the new variation showed up sometime at the
beginning of the week for these two networks and if memory serves me correctly and it usually does,
these two messenger networks are huge. Now in order for this worm to be activated a user must click
on a link and once they do that the worm will start sending messages to your contact list and get
others to click on that link as well. Although security experts rate this ....
Hi you've probably been asked this about 50 million times, but i'm gonna ask! i bought
a computer off my dads friends and when i got it it started getting windows boxes up saying that the
computer was at risk. they popped up continuously at 2 min intervals. This then stopped. i have my
ntl firewall and security check this used to pop up when starting up but it doesn't do it any
more. Its then started to connect its self to the internet to a web page that just has 21600 on it.
if u shut it down it may pop up again later. At the weekend its starting to lo....
Although not a big secuirty risk more like something interesting about what human mind viruses can
do ot a person once they recieve a message. On friday pretty much all hell broke loose in Pakistan
when people start recieving, hear, readying about a message that a Virus sen through a mobile phone
will kill people and so every mobile user in Pakinstan went into a craze and cllaed their providers
to see whats going on. The message alos mention that 20 people have died so far, of course they
make mention about the movie "The Ring" in which once a person watched this kil....
To think the Microsoft ANI exploit and the botnet things were bad but this just top the charts, this
new variation of the Storm virus of last year gets a new powerful punch. The virus gets sent
through a password protected zip fil in which the password is contain in a image file in the email.
The email subject contains either Worm Alert!" or "Trojan Detected! so do not open and just
delete it. Also the image file will read something like UrgentNotice.gif" or "AbuseReport.gif. and
the zip file will read something like "patch-####.zip" or "removal-####.zip.". ....
With the flood of news coming about the .ani exploits it seems the tech world is recieve more news
about new hacks, viruses and other bad stuff these days. Today Kaspersky Lab created a virus that
is able to affect the Ipod, however, it is only affecting Ipod's that have linux installed and
not the standard OS that comes with Ipod. The virus goes by the name of Podloso, although they say
it doesn't show a current threat this virus does show the possiblity to install malware into
devices such as the Ipod. They also mention that the virus does not copy it self....
Yesterday it was reported that their a new virus masking as a IE7 download using a very creative
looking email message with a link instead of a attachment. Name of the virus is called
Virus.Win32.Grum.A,, they mention that their hasn't been much damage cause by this however,
since they mention that instead of the download being attach they are providing a link. So once a
person clicks that link the virus will kick in. Their hasn't been any reports about what the
virus payload is, they do mention that it usually carries a keylogger program. Funny enough this v....
Here is the deal. I got this video ipod recently and it turns out that it had a worm on it. I was
only one fo the few but it did have one. The virus is called RavMonE Virus. Here is a link to find
out more about it. more info It doesn't affect macs only windows based computers. I plugged
it up to the computer and my antivirus detected a worm and I was very surprised. I did some
research and it turns out that some contracted company who builds the ipods for apple had computers
connected to the ipods and they had been infected. These computers were windows....
I have AVG anti-virus on my PC, and a few weeks back it found a trojan virus on my pc. It put it
into the virus vault but could not heal it. How do I completly remove a trojan virus? Or even can
I? Do I have to download specific software to remove it, or is there some more complexe way of
going in to the system?....
Well buffaloHELP just mention and I have confirmed it by many articles myspace accounts have been
hacked or in hte sense that if your account was hijacked then anyone viewing your profile will also
get infected as well. In a article by chaseandsam.com go into detail on how this happen and a
solution to it as well Click here for more ---WARNING--- Also this hack is also a virus in
which a person who is viewing your hacked profile will get their profile hijacked as well. Also
Symantec mentions about it as well Nortan How it was done ---SOLUTION--- ....
I have the Alcra D worm which starts up limewire and disables regedit and other things. If anyone
knows how to get rid of this tell me. PLEASE. I have adaware, but it never seems to find it. I cant
use ctrl alt delete and limewire slows my computer down because it opens non stop. SO PLEASE HELP. I
have tried other things, but they never seem to work. I found a program for the type B worm, but it
dosnt work for D i tried. Any info on this post back. If you use limewire and it keeps opening this
is what you have by the way. And i love how limwire's FAQ says you have a ....
Hi . Dear buddies now a days I’m have a very strange problem and I’m not able to understand
whats is the reason behind this problem and how I solve this problem. I am using “ ACDSEE 6.0 “ .
Yesterday I was “ Croping “ mine pictures in “ ACDSEE” then when I select the “ Croping Area” , I
received a error that “ ACDSEE has encountered an error and now will close “ /ph34r.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ph34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /> And when I trried again
to crop the same picture the same thing happened . Moreover , when I tried to view the sam....
Wup i just finished sweeping my pc with spysweeper, cause a spyware totally infected my pc, the
damm thing disabled my wallaper, i could only change a color, plus damaged norton, change my home
page, and installed a spysherrif program that was supposed to removed the spyware, of course you
need to buy it, plus installed a thing that every3 minutes show me a message in the minitray(righ
down corner), like if it was from windows, that tells me that my pc is infected. SpySweeper
apparently removed all the thing, but i still cant change my wallpaper, someone please hellp ....
At the request of an employer, I was sent to research this virus. Lo and behold, google helped
alot. But from what i found, it's a year old. It took it's effect back in 2005, and fron
what I read, was pretty much squashed from all the publicity it got. Can anyone comment on this?
Is it still around? My employer won't go online due to irrational fears, until I tell him
otherwise.....
sony have been putting software ( called xcp ) on some of their audio cds. if you play these cds on
your pc it automaticallyinstalls software on your pc. this software uses "rootkit" to hide the file
from the user. here is a list of cds with the xcp software. QUOTE Trey Anastasio, Shine
(Columbia) Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic) Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia) Our Lady Peace,
Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia) Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia) Van Zant, Get Right with
the Man (Columbia) Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia) The Coral, The Invisible In....
I found out that AVG Free version isn't eliminating even trojan viruses. I only have this free
version from protecting my system. Is it okay to install one more anti-virus software on top of this
AVG Free version which is already installed and updated to the latest version? I have the option of
installing Norton Anti-virus 2005. Will it cause any problem since the two softwares may use the
same source from the computer, if I install this one? Do you recommend that I should uninstall
first the existing software and install the new one? Will Norton Anti-virus 2005 ....
Have you ever read or encouter such virus that disguised as NEWS.. well here is some info on how
virus created found and works... QUOTE Researchers have identified a new computer virus that
masquerades as news headlines from CNN's Web site. Sophos, an anti-virus firm, says the virus
-- identified as Crowt-A -- pulls headlines, subject lines and other content from CNN.com. Once
opened, the virus can then scan the user's address book and try to email itself to those users.
The virus' subject line and attachment share the same name, Sophos researchers say....
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.......
I was online, and then a friend sent me that file, and I accepted it because he's been wanting
to send me a program that improves the resolution of the screen. But then my email address was in
the file name, so I asked him what that was. To my horror, he said 'virus', but it was too
late, I already opened it and then several chat screens popped-up, and it was auto-sent to some of
the friends on the contact list. Luckily i was quick enough to ask them not to click on it. And my
norton internet security and microsoft anti spyware program detected it and asked ....
Okay there’s a new virus going around MSN, I thought only my dumb friends were the ones accepting
it, but turns out its across the nation. So I dont know if you've got it and deleted it, or was
smart and didn’t accept it. Well it goes by (as far as I know) three names. There like "Frog
something something blender" "My new photo!" and like "Me and my lesbian friends!". Its a
17kb file, so if some1 in your list tries to send you one the those, DONT ACCEPT! It goes into
your list(takes total control, so you cant do anything) and sends itself to EVERY1 in you....
QUOTE If somebody by the name of json73002@yahoo.com adds you. dont accept it. Its a virus. Tell
everyone on ur bulletin because if somebody on ur list adds them, u get the virus too. Tell everyone
on your list not to open anything angell11. tewwtuler and sassy*BLEEP*. It is a hard drive killer
and a very horrible virus. Pass this letter to everyone on your buddy list. We need to find out who
is really using these accounts. Sorry for the inconvenience. Becareful while using Messengers
guys! Don't keep your messengers online unnecessarily. Go offline as so....
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guess nobody from trap17 is reading my blog. 
Anyway, I'd still keep my eye out for it just in case March 3 comes up... I haven't updated my antivirus software for ages. I need to get a new version.
