[pchelpers] Re: Unknown attack

Hi John
 
Thanks for the tip. Norton was beaten with this one. When I suspected something 
wasn't right I tried to bring up NAV to do a scan but it won't even start, 
giving an error instead. It was just stone dead!  
This strange phenomenon sure is weird! I know it zapped my Lotus WordPro and 
some other apps. I can still log onto the web at times and it is only at around 
late afternoon, strange things begins to happen. So during one of those times 
when things were working ok, I downloaded AVG and did a scan. It hanged at one 
file and I had to shut it down by brute force! <sigh> I wonder if it's a virus 
at all. I had NAV on all the time and it didn't catch this one. Instead it got 
zapped.  AVG tells me no virus was found. Yesterday while trying to boot up, I 
got the 'window protection' error. And then it won't shut down, instead hanging 
at the 'windows is shutting down' screen. Looks like I may have to start all 
over again. I'll try the HP system recovery CD to see if it works. Otherwise 
I'd have no choice but to reformat. 
In the meantime I'll search around the web and see if I can find anything. 
Checking my registry didn't turn up anything suspicious. I'll let you know if I 
find anything resembling this odd critter.
The worse part of this thing is not knowing what bit me! Oh well, it's a 
learning experience. I learned to read all pop-ups before clicking OK or Open! 
§:^)
Thanks for your suggestions and off of help. 
Tonia
 
  John Ford <john.ford1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
Tonia,
Another thing that you could do would be to load and install another virus
program on your infected machine. Most of the time when installing a
program such as those you are able to answer a question something like "is
your machine infected with a virus" or something to that effect.

Norton's program will allow you to do that and perhaps it may locate the
problem and at least quarantine it for you and at the very least give you a
name for the critter and then using your older machine you could get the
information needed to isolate and remove from your HD on your newer machine.
I am surprised if you had a virus program running that it did not detect
anything when you clicked open on the pop up window.

If you get he name of the virus and need our help from the list do not
hesitate to ask and maybe we can collectively come up with a solution or at
the very least get you the instructions needed to help you remove it.

John F

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[mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tonia
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:32 AM
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pchelpers] Unknown attack



Hi all
I've got the strangest thing happen to me yesterday while I was on line. I
was reading an article in a newsletter from Cramsession and clicked on a
link which said "Read More". What I got was a pop up window like what you
get when you want to download something and it prompts you to save to disk
or open in current window etc. Without thinking I clicked on Open....and
that opened a Pandora box! I noticed something being installed on my
system. Before I could do anything to stop it, it was all over! So were my
apps, Internet connection, Outlook Express email etc. Nothing works anymore.
The icon of the Word Viewer turned into a black pokemon-like monster!
I have been reading this Cramsession newsletter for some years. It's all
about exams and certifications and other techie stuff. This particular
article was on CompTIA suing Troytech so I didn't even think of reading what
that pop up window was about. After shutting it down I booted up my older
machine to continue with my work. Later that evening, I went back to it and
it seemed to work fine. Didn't give it a thought this morning when I started
it up. But towards the later part of the morning it started to act funny! It
killed my Lotus WordPro, even notepad won't start up! And the online
mentoring chat window just went blank! I went to shut down at "Start" but
it refused to start! I normally use the winkey for that but seeing it won't
work I used the mouse and what I got was a small square with a computer icon
saying "shut down". But fortunately it worked and I managed to shut it down.
I wonder if anyone here had this experience. I want to know what was planted
on my machine. I'm using Win98SE on an HP Brio workstation. Never given me
any problem till now. I hope I'm not zombiefied!
Any advice would be most appreciate...before I reformat which means I lose
everything. Haven't backed up a thing yet!

TIA.
Tonia




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