[pchelpers] Re: Unknown attack

Hi Tonia: Can you contact the website-owner and tell them what happened--?
Maybe they could help you or explain?  -Just a thought-- Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: Tonia
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 7:52 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Unknown attack



 Hi Robert
Yes, I'm still around. I have a back up machine so if one doesn't work I
fire up the other. I need that redundancy for my work. I work from home on
weekends and that means I need my Internet connection at those times.
My hdd is barely six months old and so are my RAMs. In fact I had new ones
installed just a few months ago. If it's hardware, then I have no worries.
It's still under warranty! §:^)
I experienced this problem only after I clicked on the link to try to read
about the case brought by CompTIA against Troytech for copyright
violatation.  Something got installed immediately I clicked on the link and
that link didn't take me anywhere either.  Oh well, it's still a mystery to
me. It'd be interesting to know what or why this is happening. Then again
you may be right and I'd been given a lemon of a hdd.
I'm not wiping the hdd yet. I want to find out what exactly is happening
first.
Thanks for the feedback. §:^)

Tonia

  pchelp <pchelp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don't know if you are still around but it sounds like you may have a hdd
going bad. OR... bad memory. I have had the experiences you mentioned
with both those media.

Robert McLellan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tonia"
To:

Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: [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! 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 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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