Don't let your children play with viruses.

  • ATNO/TW
  • Super Moderator
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: May 28, 2003
  • Posts: 23404
  • Loc: Woodbridge VA
  • Status: Offline

Post March 10th, 2004, 2:42 pm

Man, two of our employees let W32.Netsky.C@mm loose on our network today. What a bugger to clean. Took me four hours. I quaranteened and deleted 3887 replications in our data volume, in addition to cleaning and repairing the two culprit computers. What a pain in the behind!
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
Alexandria Networks. Leader in IT consulting for associations/non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses around the northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area.
  • Anonymous
  • Bot
  • No Avatar
  • Joined: 25 Feb 2008
  • Posts: ?
  • Loc: Ozzuland
  • Status: Online

Post March 10th, 2004, 2:42 pm

  • UNFLUX
  • Genius
  • Genius
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Dec 20, 2002
  • Posts: 6382
  • Loc: twitter.com/unflux
  • Status: Offline

Post March 10th, 2004, 2:50 pm

:shock: that's why they pay you the big bucks, isn't it? ;) :P
UNFLUX.FOTO
  • ATNO/TW
  • Super Moderator
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: May 28, 2003
  • Posts: 23404
  • Loc: Woodbridge VA
  • Status: Offline

Post March 10th, 2004, 2:51 pm

I deserve at least a beer for today! *lol and, ummm no joy on the big bucs, yet.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
Alexandria Networks. Leader in IT consulting for associations/non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses around the northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area.
  • ModernDestroyer
  • Professor
  • Professor
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Sep 18, 2003
  • Posts: 800
  • Loc: California
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 10:09 am

I have one company I do computer repair and virus cleaning for, and he just opens his email with out looking to see who it is that is sending it to him :shock: he had about 7000 copies of w32.mydoom and about 2000 copies of w32.netsky on his PC. They had infected every directory and subdirectory on the PC :shock: got me an hour of work :twisted:
  • natural_angel33
  • Graduate
  • Graduate
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 03, 2004
  • Posts: 127
  • Loc: Las Vegas, NV (blech!)
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 1:28 pm

"virii"... that's great! like "cacti", or "octopi"

:lol:

I've never seen the plural of "virus" writtten that way. In school we always wrote "viruses." Is this the correct way or is yours?
  • ATNO/TW
  • Super Moderator
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: May 28, 2003
  • Posts: 23404
  • Loc: Woodbridge VA
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 1:39 pm

It's a Latin word - the plural is virii

//Excuse me, I apologize and stand corrected. I've seen it that way for so long that I thought that was correct. It is not. You got my curiosity up and I actually looked it up. Viruses is correct. I will promptly change my spelling henceforth:

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
Alexandria Networks. Leader in IT consulting for associations/non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses around the northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area.
  • natural_angel33
  • Graduate
  • Graduate
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 03, 2004
  • Posts: 127
  • Loc: Las Vegas, NV (blech!)
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 1:45 pm

is it weird that I feel bad for correcting a mod on grammar? :oops:

Thanks for looking it up. :wink:
  • ATNO/TW
  • Super Moderator
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: May 28, 2003
  • Posts: 23404
  • Loc: Woodbridge VA
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 1:54 pm

I learn something new every day. That was not the first new thing I learned today and won't be the last. Thanks for helping me see it.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
Alexandria Networks. Leader in IT consulting for associations/non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses around the northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area.
  • natural_angel33
  • Graduate
  • Graduate
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 03, 2004
  • Posts: 127
  • Loc: Las Vegas, NV (blech!)
  • Status: Offline

Post March 12th, 2004, 2:01 pm

:D
  • BlueHat
  • Banned
  • Banned
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 29, 2004
  • Posts: 589
  • Loc: Cyprus
  • Status: Offline

Post March 14th, 2004, 5:53 pm

ModernDestroyer wrote:
he had about 7000 copies of w32.mydoom and about 2000 copies of w32.netsky on his PC.


i assume u hade a very nice day.
  • Vladdrac
  • Mastermind
  • Mastermind
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 04, 2004
  • Posts: 2136
  • Loc: Louisville, Ky
  • Status: Offline

Post March 14th, 2004, 7:41 pm

well you can never stop learning......

Look at the attachment opening users as job security. It all works out
  • Tom the Great
  • Expert
  • Expert
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Feb 20, 2004
  • Posts: 727
  • Loc: B.C., Canada
  • Status: Offline

Post March 15th, 2004, 3:01 pm

My mom has been using the comptuer for like a month, and the only thing she uses it for is e-mail and some web browsing. The thing is, is that she gets the e-mail viruses all the time and she knows which ones are real e-mails and which ones are virues. So if she can learn after a month or two of using a computer, most other people should be able to learn about this stuff.
  • ModernDestroyer
  • Professor
  • Professor
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Sep 18, 2003
  • Posts: 800
  • Loc: California
  • Status: Offline

Post March 16th, 2004, 8:00 am

BlueHat wrote:
ModernDestroyer wrote:
he had about 7000 copies of w32.mydoom and about 2000 copies of w32.netsky on his PC.


i assume u hade a very nice day.


actually I used the removal tools from the symantec website and it took about an hour or so and another hour or so updating and rechecking everything.
  • musik
  • Legend
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: Aug 06, 2003
  • Posts: 6892
  • Loc: up a tree
  • Status: Offline

Post March 16th, 2004, 2:55 pm

holy cow MD!!!
Opportunity To Do - Changing the lives of children around the world.
Rose.id.au - Doing Life.
  • ATNO/TW
  • Super Moderator
  • Super Moderator
  • User avatar
  • Joined: May 28, 2003
  • Posts: 23404
  • Loc: Woodbridge VA
  • Status: Offline

Post March 16th, 2004, 5:31 pm

MD isn't kidding -- In the end, I cleaned about 4500 replicants of Netsky off of our shared network folder. The next day, caught 880 more because I missed a subfolder. And over the last couple days I found another 400 some instances of that and Beagle. Just talked to my mom and her quarantine server is on her computer where she works and they are getting hit just as hard. I think I finally got rid of them all today after a week of messing with it off and on. For whatever it's worth -- I'm extremely pleased with Symantec's Enterprise edition. It ain't cheap by a long shot, but worth every penny in my book. Fortunately, the timing was right because I just had to renew licenses and got the newest release.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
Alexandria Networks. Leader in IT consulting for associations/non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses around the northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area.
  • Anonymous
  • Bot
  • No Avatar
  • Joined: 25 Feb 2008
  • Posts: ?
  • Loc: Ozzuland
  • Status: Online

Post March 16th, 2004, 5:31 pm

Post Information

  • Total Posts in this topic: 20 posts
  • Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 78 guests
  • You cannot post new topics in this forum
  • You cannot reply to topics in this forum
  • You cannot edit your posts in this forum
  • You cannot delete your posts in this forum
  • You cannot post attachments in this forum
 
cron
 

© 2011 Unmelted, LLC. Ozzu® is a registered trademark of Unmelted, LLC.