hi
thatz a supposedly deadly virus thatz been spreading thru the latest media transfer utility ie. pen-drives...it quite deadly n dangerous for it has some built in key-logger<it records key strokes of user and can track with ease the email passwords and many other stuffs,mayb paypal>
it spreading fast in some notable forms:
->NewFolder.exe
->NewPowerpoint.exe
->Hinhem.scr
->boo.exe< my pick!>
symptoms:
->Disables task manager with ease
->Disables regedit.exe ,gpedit.msc,*.msc console editors with winxp
->disables almost any command line utility
->cmd and command.com disabled
->strips Admin user of authority of user rights
->diables folder option etc..
For those of you who panic hearing this:Take a deep breathe coz u neddnt format to stay-alive!
For those not paniking😛anic first and u needn't read this until so...;-)
well it seems to spread with pendrive with files like listed above
it spreads as soon we dbl left click on these files and if a infected comp has a pen drive inserted then the virus immediatly spreads into the pen drive
First Pre-caution to use infected pendrives
->Do-NOT-Use-Auto-Play feature of explorer.exe
when a pen drive is inserted press shift to disable the autoplay to pop options to open the pen-Drive!
When done open explorer
and then then go to adress bar and write the drive letter with a colon
eg. G:< for those who know me--u kno y G ???>
next press return key<aka 'enter'>
next up the do not press the infected file....cut copy paste all others also be cautios while opening sub-folders coz they cud b infected too!
Do the adressbar way! viz G:/iam/d/superman/fighting/evil/wmplayer.exe
when done with every thin directly unplug the pen-drive as the safe-removal doesnt always work!
Now for those Infected Souls....who wish to do nothing else but format!>
->somehow reboot to Safe-Mode
->now go to run n type %systemroot%
->go to explorer.exe and rename it with some other name<do not delte it unless u wanna go my WINDOS way!>
->safelty shutdown and reboot in normal mode!
->Now an option pops for explorer.exe was not found!
->select iexplore.exe in that
->u will see the start and taskbar vanish but u see all other basic options like
taskmanager,cmd or command.com or regedit.exe or msconfig easily open
->also use address bar to move across locations and do not click on any
folder to view it!rather use the address bar to go across locations
->Now create a backup of all docs,files or anything u wish to experiment with a normal window...well i learnt a lot abt the virus this way and there are ways to delete the virus by retracing its location...
->after deleting all instances of virus....go to safe-mode and rename that explorer.exe as explorer.exe and then reboot back to normal mode as u wish to do!
well guys i followed this method..dangerous and treacherous but worthwhile to learn abt virus though when not much of anti-virus soln was there...in august 'o7!
But now almost all anti-virus like the updated Norton or Bit-defender or KasperSki or even K7 Total Solutions or even Pervix 2.0 or Nod 32 guys<this 32 however has nothing to do with 32 bit systems>
Please update to latest virus defenition list ;
My pick-KasperSki Or Bit-Defender! Always!
Update !
But guys when formating ........go ahead wait for wat?
PS:Hey i suspected one piece of this virus getting into system vol info in2 hard disk matters but format does the job!
bye!
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