[TechAssist] Re: That bad word suriv
- From: "Edward Gaidies" <teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:50:33 -0400
I was confused too..I cleared everything out. Cleaned out my quarantine
folder. Norton kept coming back and telling me it was still on my system.
It's a bad one...especially when you are networking a couple of computers.
Have to decide whether you are the host of the virus, or if it was sent by
another computer on your network. Two very important things are when you do
the repair, turn off your Restore function and disconnect from all other
computers on the network.
And again....do regular updates of your Norton or likes.
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Midland, Ontario
Canada.
teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Bader" <philbad@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: That bad word suriv
>
> I'm confused...(and not a PC expert).
> You said Norton quarantined it. Should be end of problem.Can this virus
> do damage even if Norton detects it and sends it to quatantine? I can't
> see how.
> Phil Bader
>
> Tel-Tek Electronics wrote:
> >
> > 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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