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| encounter with a virus |
| 01.28.05 (4:38 pm) [edit] |
encounter on 26th jan 2005
i was real sleepy that morning while checking my email and when an attachment passed the yahoo anti-virus screen, i assumed like a fool it was clean.
turned out it was a "bagle" virus, not the ones you have for breakfast am afraid. my eTrust Antivirus software managed to remove the file. Or so I thought, as some traces were still left i sent a copy of the virus to the anti-virus team at this link and hoped that was the end of it.
encounter on 27th jan 2005
this morning while checking my email, saw that the eTrust Antivirus team had updated their virus signature database, that was quick! They also published a detailed page on the win32 bagle virus, as you can see, this virus shuts down microsoft's firewall program and also the mcafee update program in a way crippling your machine's defenses.
my winpatrol an effective free program prevented the virus from copying itself into the startup programs list. that way the virus wouldn't load everytime i switched on my machine.
my mcafee managed to block the virus from dialling remote host computers on the internet, before it crashed. do i have a backdoor installed on my machine? am not sure.
found that the virus made 323+ copies of itself on my C:/ drive! well i got rid of them now.
encounter today
found 4 copies of the virus, my antivirus program took care of that. don't know when i'll be completely rid of it...
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