[TechAssist] Re: That bad word suriv
- From: "Bruce Tiedeman" <btied@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:36:08 -0400
What are the Utilities...
Bruce.
B&T Electronics
139 Margaret St
Sarnia Ontario
Canada
N7T 2Y3
(519) 344-1850
btied@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: <wolfe-mcse@xxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: That bad word suriv
>
> Howdy...
>
>
> It may have been easier to fix if you had contacted a certified service
> professional. By using 2 utilities, I could have most likely guided you
> through fixing the problem. One of these utilities would have replaced
the
> infected files, and the other would have restored the registry database to
> fix its ability to infect other files.
>
>
> Wolfe Strickland, MCSE, MCP+I, MCP, CompTIA A+
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tel-Tek Electronics
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:06 PM
> To: Gary McCartney
> Cc: TechAssist
> Subject: [TechAssist] That bad word suriv
>
>
>
> Gary;
> Just got that W32.Opaserv.worm this weekend, Could not shake it, Norton
> could not repair, and only put it into quarantine, This is the virus that
> affects networking capabilities. I spent the whole weekend trying to
> eradicate it, manually getting rid of it. Nothing worked. Even downloaded
a
> "patch" from Symantec.
> Nothing worked..finally I had to get rid of my Windows ME, format my
"C"
> drive and re-install. A real pain.
> This was a computer that my wife was using, and since I bought her a
new
> one for her birthday, it just sat for a couple of weeks. I thought that I
> would use it as a backup to store my shop files, but did not do an update
on
> the Norton files first. That's were it all started.
> Everytime I did a "scan" it went from 3 files contaminated to 6 then
9.
> This is a networking virus, and I was lucky that the info I had on this
> computer was either backed up, or retrievable.
> I feel sorry for any shops that have their computers networked, and start
> sending this virus to each other.
> Someone out there really wants to see these systems not work.
> Just thought I would pass this on, as a point of interest, and beware. Do
> your updates on your AV, on a constant. As I mentioned, this computer only
> sat for a couple of weeks.
> Anyway...these were 2 wasted days of trying to recover the system, and
> finally doing the "no no" and re-install.
>
> -Ed-
>
>
> Tel-Tek Electronics
> Ontario-Canada
> teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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