So, who did some malware cleaning up at friends/relatives abodes on T-Day

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So, who did some malware cleaning up at friends/relatives abodes on T-Day Duh_Oz 11-25-2005
Posted by Duh_Oz on November 25, 2005, 11:55 am
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Went to bro's house, who finally went from 56K land low low-end SBC DSL
a few months back. First thing I do is boot his computer, update his
anti-virus defs and 'low and behold two malware products. He was
surprised because I checked his computer just a few months back. Argh.

Sorry I forgot to write down the malware names. Booted in safe
mode(W2K) and used AdAware to delete two reg entries and f-prot to
delete the malware. Since his f-prot license expires next week I set
him up the SBC antivirus package (CA I believe).

I also installed the free ZA firewall and gave him a quick demo. Of
course he was annoyed he had to click yes to 'allow so and so to access
the internet'. I assured him that clicking to 'remember this
setting' will not have the same program keep popping up.

One of my many ex-manager was at daughter in law's and they had some
two month old malware on their system. So he did his job for 'duty and
humanity'


So any others out there have the 'pleasure' of ridding
firends/relatives computers of malware after the Thanksgiving feast?


Posted by Turan Fettahoglu on November 25, 2005, 1:13 pm
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> So any others out there have the 'pleasure' of ridding
> firends/relatives computers of malware after the Thanksgiving feast?

Happens all the time, even without Thanksgiving. My personal record were
some 175+ hits with Ad-Aware and, believe it or not, a whole directory full
of worm files. The PC owner swears he does not know how he caught the worms.

The mean thing is: mostly you are called by friends and you can't very well
"charge" more than a bottle of wine for the cleaning job.

Happy worm hunting, and enjoy your roast turkey!

Turan


Posted by Max Wachtel on November 25, 2005, 6:20 pm
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Duh_Oz ozzy.kopec@gmail.com on 11/25/2005 in
thought,came up with this jewel:

> Went to bro's house, who finally went from 56K land low low-end SBC
> DSL a few months back. First thing I do is boot his computer,
> update his anti-virus defs and 'low and behold two malware products.
> He was surprised because I checked his computer just a few months
> back. Argh.
>
> Sorry I forgot to write down the malware names. Booted in safe
> mode(W2K) and used AdAware to delete two reg entries and f-prot to
> delete the malware. Since his f-prot license expires next week I
> set him up the SBC antivirus package (CA I believe).
>
> I also installed the free ZA firewall and gave him a quick demo. Of
> course he was annoyed he had to click yes to 'allow so and so to
> access the internet'. I assured him that clicking to 'remember this
> setting' will not have the same program keep popping up.
>
> One of my many ex-manager was at daughter in law's and they had some
> two month old malware on their system. So he did his job for 'duty
> and humanity'
>
>
> So any others out there have the 'pleasure' of ridding
> firends/relatives computers of malware after the Thanksgiving feast?

I have a thumb drive with various cleaning tools that I bring
along-saves time.
max
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Posted by Wilbur Post on November 27, 2005, 4:33 am
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@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> Since his f-prot license expires next week I set
> him up the SBC antivirus package (CA I believe).

e-trust?

It's amazing how many broadband providers give it away for free, yet no one
can find a review or comparative study of the darn program.

Posted by Duh_OZ on November 27, 2005, 5:28 pm
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Wilbur Post wrote:
> @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Since his f-prot license expires next week I set
> > him up the SBC antivirus package (CA I believe).
>
> e-trust?
>
> It's amazing how many broadband providers give it away for free, yet no one
> can find a review or comparative study of the darn program.
===========
I really don't know. Just saw CA, knew it was loaded and got my arse
out of there. At that point I had enough of his computer.


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