Virus hit my wife's system

ZigonZagoff · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: Virus hit my wife's system

My wife turned on her system and got hit by this stupid virus. I now have to scan my systems since she is on my side of the firewall. At least the back door portion shouldn't affect my system because of the firewalls but I have to make sure nothing starts up a DOS or I will lose my EQ and I definitely don't want that to happen.

Just wanted others to be aware of it.

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,89453,00.html?nas=AM-89453

ZigonZagoff · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject:

Had to manually fix her system because the virus hit her on Saturday before the AV software was updated.
There was also another DLL file in the temp folder that loaded on startup. It was called ihide.dll. I removed it by booting in safe mode and then deleting the file. I then scanned her system while in Safe Mode then rebooted. It came up clean at that point.

I have her system setup to update AV files daily - think I might want to change that to every 12 hours so I don't miss a window.

For everyone that gets hit by this - good luck.