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Oh yes. Well. The machine at the heart of the matter came into the office from home use. It was not cleaned up before it was connected to the office network. (This is just one example of why the IT guy is gone and I'm now working for no wages in the family business.)
It had two trojans. adloader and lemmy, that reached out and sucked in more malware. Gotta love those kinds. It also had a relatively benign virus that disabled the virus protection software and would have erased everything on A: if there had been an A:. That one probably arrived by Instant Messenger and was most likely on the machine before it come into the office.
Those are not the virus on the other machines. Nope. That one is a newly modified version of blackmal that is spreading itself through the network shares. It is busy putting enticing icons on people's desktops. Things like "Connect." That one is also sending email porn with a "video" attachment you can "watch."
That one will be a bit harder to clean off the machines around here. Sadly, I'm going to have to check the xp on my laptop. I connected it to the network. I think I'm clean, though, 'cause I didn't allow write access from the network. But I don't trust Microsoft as far as I can throw it.
One of the viruses installs a small text file in the systems directory. It's a haiku suggesting the virus was created for the purpose of causing problems for Bill Gates. Viruses cause no problem what so ever for Microsoft, but they do provide lots of employment for anti-virus professionals. :)
This will be a Microsoft Free environment before I'm done. I have to convince a few people that using AOL is not a good enough reason to remain on a M$ box. Speaking of AOL, they are so desperate to keep customers that Stacey has been offered FREE aol because she has Time Warner Cable in the house. I can see the business model now, aol is going to try surviving on ad revenue. Good luck AOL.
It had two trojans. adloader and lemmy, that reached out and sucked in more malware. Gotta love those kinds. It also had a relatively benign virus that disabled the virus protection software and would have erased everything on A: if there had been an A:. That one probably arrived by Instant Messenger and was most likely on the machine before it come into the office.
Those are not the virus on the other machines. Nope. That one is a newly modified version of blackmal that is spreading itself through the network shares. It is busy putting enticing icons on people's desktops. Things like "Connect." That one is also sending email porn with a "video" attachment you can "watch."
That one will be a bit harder to clean off the machines around here. Sadly, I'm going to have to check the xp on my laptop. I connected it to the network. I think I'm clean, though, 'cause I didn't allow write access from the network. But I don't trust Microsoft as far as I can throw it.
One of the viruses installs a small text file in the systems directory. It's a haiku suggesting the virus was created for the purpose of causing problems for Bill Gates. Viruses cause no problem what so ever for Microsoft, but they do provide lots of employment for anti-virus professionals. :)
This will be a Microsoft Free environment before I'm done. I have to convince a few people that using AOL is not a good enough reason to remain on a M$ box. Speaking of AOL, they are so desperate to keep customers that Stacey has been offered FREE aol because she has Time Warner Cable in the house. I can see the business model now, aol is going to try surviving on ad revenue. Good luck AOL.
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And if they are just holding out for the chat client. There's clients available for linux and other OSs.