its 3:15, and i have 8 different people calling about viruses! Whats going on???

[MadSkillzMan]

i get woken up at 1130, by my dad. Says the family computer filled up with norton warnings, icons multiplied, then it shut off. Put the HDD in my mac, mac says filesystem is far too damaged to work with. Put it on my bros winbox, same thing, only a big ? over the drive. Try linux, we have success . Backup all our documents, pics, files, etc..

try again in windows, this time with luck. mcaffee finds 72 viri. none of whicch can be moved.

Just then my friend calls, says he got online for 5 minutes, his machine was DEAD. his DSL has been down for weeks. My bros machine is mysteriously trying to dial out.

People from bowling green call in asking "do you know how to remove a large amount of viruses????"




My mac is accumulating things just downloaded to the desktop. All "click me .exe" "downloader.exe" etc...

Ive had 8 different people call just me. what the hell is giong on??

[techun]

3 computers on, with weak protection here..and no problems YET

[MadSkillzMan]

friend of mine a few streets over IMs me "dude i think somethings seriously wrong with my computer!!!" signs off... lol

[PLOBBY]

Thats really wierd, wonder what going on. When was the last format for you hard drive? The one with 71 or 72 viruses on it?

[buckbadly]

They all have hotmail? Theres some mass mailing viri goin on through them right now..I'm gettin 10-15 of em a day right now.

[hibner]

I just wiped my HD last night and reinstalled everything. It doesn't matter how much antivirus, spyware, malware, or adware protection you have. If your wife thinks cartoony animated smileys are cute, you get viruses. :bang head

[pwnt by pat]

Well being in a computer repair industry and being at work right now, dead for two and a half hours I can tell you this:

1) Norton sucks, don't rely on it for anything
2) Mcafee is even worse. Don't even bother with it anymore.
3) safe mode is your friend

Have them all bring over their computers and monitors, set up a lan, and get to work. You could be making a couple hundred dollars today. I... I will sit her, laugh, and play games on my cell phone.

[MadSkillzMan]

well heres what i found out.

Huge breaking news on tv, some jackass 16 year old in sweden hacked into Cicso systems and had a field day as the root user. Said he just went wild sending crap to everyone, screwing with websites...

Then they started whinning on the news how everything we do is reliant uponcomputers. WELL DUH we did that ourselves.

Cmon now, a 16 year old? theres gotta be more to this story. they calimed he had access to all kinds of military codes, bank accounts, pretty much everything.

as for the hardd rive, i dont know...it didnt want to format at first but now all is ok. im updating everything now.

And as for the we rely on machines..yea thats true...thats why i have this theory that the world will end because of machines...but it wont be onea those cool endings with lots of looting and killing zombies, itll just be like some jerk starts hacking, gets a BSOD, accidentally ticks off a missile silo, and then boom lol

Also, apparently some virus went wild in kentucky that took your DSL/Phone line and dialed long distance? id really like to know how to solve that, as my bros machine brings up phone dialer every 2 hours.

[Midnight Dream]

Irrelevant to this MadSkillzMan. its just confirmations that it was the swedish juvenile who did indeed go through the Cisco backbone system of routers. He is also the one being charged with stealing the Cisco IOS code. All that was done ~April 2004

[MadSkillzMan]

oh wow. id like to know where the heck this all came from.

none of us use hotmail. i use Gmail, dad uses SBC, friends use AOL/Yahoo..

[gigabit]

Is this the w32.sober warning?I have been getting this all week like 10 times a day.But today i only got it twice.It was really making me mad.I even called Microsoft since im a beta tester for them now.But i couldnt get through they were totally backed up the last few days

[MadSkillzMan]

one was win32bube, esx.exe, serfer.exe efvefcefv.exe, CLICKME!!!.exe exlprer.exe was infected, downlaod.bat, FreePhone1.exe
oh yea, after the reformat, the mouse is dead, the printer WONT WORK on this computer!! works on my mac though...

Friends of mine are just getting back on..they said their USB devices are having difficulty as well

[darkknight187]

hmmm maybe somebody has flooded your subnet with new virii or something? other than that i would suggest you flash the bios, slap the drives in the linux box, do a good format (enough passes to make sure she's clean) then give it another shot as it may be possible that it's wrote itself someplace harder to wipe.

[Elif Tymes]

We had some issues with some nutty viruses a week ago.

Like, 3-4 people came down with the same one. We basically had to kill everything on their machines. Backed p their data to my extra 80GB HDD, and reformatted. I hate doing that, but it had to be done :-p.

[gt24]

I've used Avast for a long time, freeware and pretty darn good, in my opinion.

Well, I can say this, it is better than Norton since it can easily see what Norton never sees.

Anyways, if these computers are being reinstalled plugged into high speed internet... then that is your problem. Get the systems installed, install a firewall (or use Window's Firewall... but I don't know how secure it is) THEN run to the internet and grab updates. For the uber paranoid, plop service pack 2 on the computers first then grab windows update.

The bad USB devices sound strange though. I never heard of a virus that ever effected a USB device...

[CrystalMethod]

Well, I'm waiting for the storm. Only one or two people trickled in this past week with virus related problems at my shop. It's been so dead for the past two weeks I grabbed a system from home and brought it into the shop so I can play WOW, while I wait for something to do.

[MadSkillzMan]

well its quiet now everythings back to normal..minus the USB not working...thats just my comp...the 1 guy who called, his ethernete doesnt work?

Im so lost lol i really am.

PC users and your viruses

[shard]

sounds more like an ISP investation, but that is from my VERY limited knowledge of internet protocal

[rebelwarlock]

i'm fairly lazy when it comes to disinfecting, i just use system restore before the problem gets out of hand. it seems like you're well beyond that point though...

[Mr.Guvernment]

Cmon now, a 16 year old?


Many 16 year olds know more about coding / hacking / phreaking then most 60 years who owned the first computers.

[Sucka]

If my computer even looks at me funny i format it :)

[ozzlo]

^^^^ lol


if I had the money I woulden't wast my time... I would just buy a new HD


anyways I got dial suck but I've been leting it run 24/7 for awhile now and no problems out of the ordinary.

[gt24]

If my computer even looks at me funny i format it :)

Me... I just use it, and torture it until it does my bidding or is driven into the ground...

it still works. :)

[shellshock]

I have sbc dsl, and Ive been getting TONS of viruses. Most of my friends have sbc dsl too. There getting the virus, (cause there cheap-asses who dont buy norton or something) and the virus is fowarding itslsef to me using there address book.

[threeme2189]

sucky....well norton hasnt been updated on 2 weeks and the pc's still running...somehow :p
i gotta dl avg or update the subscription to thos norton crap.

[MadSkillzMan]

I have sbc dsl, and Ive been getting TONS of viruses. Most of my friends have sbc dsl too. There getting the virus, (cause there cheap-asses who dont buy norton or something) and the virus is fowarding itslsef to me using there address book.


My dads getting like 10 a day. Luckily hes not dumb enough to open one..i mean cmon, "Word document.exe passed the norTRAN virus scan"

Its sad that these people have nothing better to do but desetroy others data.