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Title: new virus?
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on December 18, 2008, 10:54:22 AM

Last night I brought my work laptop home to do some work and I was getting an error about part of the wireless config was registering and starting correctly.  I figured it was my system and I worked on it without success last night.  Today I figured I would do a windows XP reinstall to clear the issue.  However when I got in this morning 2 or 3 other people have been reporting slow computers, programs not working correclty etc.  Has anyone else out there been seeing anything going on around them lately?  I have run the Blacklight root kit scanner.  A full McAfee system scan, Spybot 1.6 full scan and I am running a Trend Micro online scanner now.  Any other ideas?

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: sully! on December 18, 2008, 11:04:34 AM

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/12/16/stop-viewing-porn-in-internet-explorer-for-now/ (http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/12/16/stop-viewing-porn-in-internet-explorer-for-now/)

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: The Shoctor on December 18, 2008, 12:24:34 PM

hahahahaha

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on December 18, 2008, 12:31:21 PM

1.  This is my work computer.  I don't bother doing pr0n on it.
2.  I use firefox anyway for all my surfing needs.  First thing I installed on the system when I got it.

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: sully! on December 18, 2008, 12:44:07 PM

I wasn't referring to you and pr0n directly, just pointing out the exploits from the recent IE vulnerability. Which, BTW, Microsoft issued an emergency patch for yesterday. This vulnerability not only affects IE, but anything that utilizes the MSHTML rendering engine such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Word, or any number of programs that rely on the underlying IE technologies to perform some functionality.

I don't know if what you're experiencing is this or not, but you asked a question and I answered. Patch patch patch!

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on December 18, 2008, 01:00:59 PM

I understand where you are coming from.  And I am distributing the patch out to all of the computers today.  But I am just stumped as to what has gotten into our network as I have done scans with 2 different AV programs and nothing is showing yet. 

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: decepticon on December 18, 2008, 01:14:45 PM

It's kind of new, so your AV/AS software may have not picked it up yet.

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: -Sp()()ge- on December 18, 2008, 02:02:43 PM

conficker.a has shown up on my work pc today.  it jacked my network connection.

Title: Re: new virus?
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on December 21, 2008, 04:29:05 PM

Well I got the issue resolved.  Turns out it was a Com+ component that was corrupted by an install of WinFax pro 10.  It took doing a system restore to a time before the component was distributed.  Unfortunately since the Com+ service couldn't start it couldn't do the system restore.  I found instructions online on how to do a system restore by copying the files manually.  It will only do the registry hives and not the DLLs that might have changed.  I used a Ubuntu live CD to do the copying.  If anyone is interested in more just let me know.  Just glad I didn't have to reinstall windows on all the systems.