3+ Million Hit with Windows Virus
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Twist86
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Safe to say I don't have it....3.5million who got it were idiots in places they shouldn't have been.
Also a simple bandwidth monitor can tell you if your infected by this. Netmeter being the best and free.
Still what a cool virus.. Hats off to the team that made it. 3.5m is really tame number considering how many PCs are out in the world.
If you think you have it then its time to format that USB stick and PC
Also a simple bandwidth monitor can tell you if your infected by this. Netmeter being the best and free.
Still what a cool virus.. Hats off to the team that made it. 3.5m is really tame number considering how many PCs are out in the world.
If you think you have it then its time to format that USB stick and PC
tlarkin
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Safe to say I don't have it....3.5million who got it were idiots in places they shouldn't have been.
Also a simple bandwidth monitor can tell you if your infected by this. Netmeter being the best and free.
Still what a cool virus.. Hats off to the team that made it. 3.5m is really tame number considering how many PCs are out in the world.
If you think you have it then its time to format that USB stick and PC
Considering it copies itself to thumb drives I wouldn't say people weren't always visiting bad sites.
techjunkie08
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Actually its over 8 + million people or computers that have been hit.. Most are business, and myself got attacked. Considering I lost everything, it really sucks.
techjunkie08
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Its such a complicated virus... for the user, for the person who created it.. it manually goes on its own for computer to computer, using thousands of keywords to crack the passwords, it doesn't have to be on a computer that is being used and it can spread.. .
gamerman4
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if anyone is worried a virus is connecting to a remote server then just use this. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
It will tell you all open TCP/UDP connections and the process that opened it.
It will tell you all open TCP/UDP connections and the process that opened it.
techjunkie08
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I already got hit by that damn virus.
i have the patch but it says security .inf is not integirty or somethin,g what i can i do to fix my computer?
i have the patch but it says security .inf is not integirty or somethin,g what i can i do to fix my computer?
tlarkin
VIP Member
Not always hackers are getting smart and hijacking domains and spoofing them. Just the other day I got an email saying someone commented on my facebook. I opened up the email to what I thought was facebook and firefox immediately said that I had to install a plug in to view the site. I closed the window down and looked at the email headers, which were spoofed but a quick reverse DNS look up shows that it came from an IP that originated in China.
Plus there are so many old windows machines that are not patched and up to date on the interwebs that it self propagates to those machines and then turns them into bots, spamming more and more viruses and exploits out there.
It then attaches itself to Windows services and copies itself to every volume it can, which is where the thumb drive thing comes in.
Anti-virus will not protect from this virus because there are already new variants of it and if you get hit before you definitions get updated then your anti virus software is useless.
You just need to have safe computing habits. The fake facebook email I got was pretty damn convincing, but I know that you don't need any special plug-ins to view facebook.
That type of attack you really can't defend against either, especially if you allow it to install.
Irishwhistle
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No virus here!
g4m3rof1337
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Wow, are the symptoms of the virus noticeable?
massahwahl
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Yeah how would you know if you had it?
g4m3rof1337
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massahwahl
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Couldn't tell if that was meant to be taken sarcastically or not.
Well it was serious, i know it sounds dumb but the article didnt really explain what outward signs it would do unless i missed something. I saw where it explained how the virus installed itself and whatnot.
Yeah the article really didnt explain it at all. I sure as hell hope I dont have it.
The article suggested to make sure that - if you're running Windows - to make sure that you have all of the available patches and updates for it.
The updates, from what I read, will prevent this virus/trojan. And if you already have it, it will stop its activity. Of course from there, then your anti-virus should be able to detect it.
When it comes to anti-virus, I would highly recommend using McAfee. It's very affordable, frequently updated, and definitely one of the best ones available. Most-importantly, being commercial, it's always being improved. One important thing I must stress out with McAfee is that it's not a resource hog, which many users claim it to be.
And, for your own convenience in relation to McAfee anti-virus, you can buy it very inexpensively online at Buy.com: McAfee Total Protection 2009: 3-user; the product I just linked to is only $14.99 for one year of exceptional anti-virus protection, detection, and prevention, including a lot of many interesting features such as its phenomenal firewall (which I researched is actually better than ZoneAlarm and is very comparable, if not better, than ZoneAlarm Pro), AND is valid for use on up to three computers. You really can't go wrong with McAfee, especially at that price!
g4m3rof1337
Active Member
Well I have it set for automatic install for updates everyday at 3AM.
techjunkie08
New Member
Symptoms of the new virus.
when i was running only norton it came across as a trojan a dropper, a zlob, a bloodhound and many other things. Norton said they were blocked and removed. So i thought, I beat it nothing to worry about. Well, norton let me down, the program still got to me. I finally figured thats what i have because I remember seeing a file called Downadup on the story about this virus.
Problems you will have .
1. You will not be able to boot properly, it will go on a continous loop because your hd cannot boot.
2. You will have to use a disk to boot at all.
3. Once you boot it you will notice that other accounts on your comp will be disabled.
4. Most likey your regedit is disabled, you will have no task manager, control panel, you won't be able to copy and paste, IE will stop working along with many other programs. However the virus is a remote connection based, meaning they can see what your doing to gain information. So not everyprogram will be unusable, or howelse would they get information.
5. Your personal documents will be come corrupted. As mine were I LOST EVERYTHING I HAD! The problem is when i went to back them up you cannot copy and paste or drag from windows explorer folders. Running a virus scan will not work! It disabled Malwarebytes saying vbalsgrid6.ocx isn't their. SuperANTIvirus can't find anything, neither can norton.
I don't know what to do, i downloaded the required patch, but it won't let me install it as it says security.inf does not have integrity use chrypotpatheic something or another.
when i was running only norton it came across as a trojan a dropper, a zlob, a bloodhound and many other things. Norton said they were blocked and removed. So i thought, I beat it nothing to worry about. Well, norton let me down, the program still got to me. I finally figured thats what i have because I remember seeing a file called Downadup on the story about this virus.
Problems you will have .
1. You will not be able to boot properly, it will go on a continous loop because your hd cannot boot.
2. You will have to use a disk to boot at all.
3. Once you boot it you will notice that other accounts on your comp will be disabled.
4. Most likey your regedit is disabled, you will have no task manager, control panel, you won't be able to copy and paste, IE will stop working along with many other programs. However the virus is a remote connection based, meaning they can see what your doing to gain information. So not everyprogram will be unusable, or howelse would they get information.
5. Your personal documents will be come corrupted. As mine were I LOST EVERYTHING I HAD! The problem is when i went to back them up you cannot copy and paste or drag from windows explorer folders. Running a virus scan will not work! It disabled Malwarebytes saying vbalsgrid6.ocx isn't their. SuperANTIvirus can't find anything, neither can norton.
I don't know what to do, i downloaded the required patch, but it won't let me install it as it says security.inf does not have integrity use chrypotpatheic something or another.