Post by Kahlah - The Twilight Wolf on Apr 25, 2006 0:37:33 GMT
I'm not one to sit around and wait for the mess to hit the fan so I want to post this warning right NOW, As in Right this moment. Lets get down to business shall we. For all who may or may not know there IS *shutters* A new virus lurking about that (and I hate to say this) DISABLES Most well know Anti-Virus Programs
Among this list is
Norton
McAfee
AVG Anti-Virus
Panda Antivirus
PC Chillin
The Virus is called Win32.Polipos
and you all may not even know you have it. Trust me if it's left alone too long it will cause your Hard Drive to act like it's on the brink of total destruction. This includes various problems that have been reported (.i.e. Computers rebooting themselves after a certain time period, Programs crashing for NO reason, Blue screens of Death, the inability to even RUN you virus scanner...etc). You see this virus infects just about any and EVERYTHING in sight specially any exeacutables (Programs, PC games O___O; ... The whole nine yards people). And to make it even scarier...
It infects....
INSTANT MESSENGERS!!!
Yes.. Yahoo, AiM, MSN...even ICQ and Trillian *cringe*
No, This isn't a joke. It's real..And how would I know... -_-; I just scanned my comp with the ONE program that is able to detect it due to the fact the virus DOES NOT disable it and allows it to pick it up. McAfee and Norton doesn't even HAVE this bloody virus IN it's definitions and it's been running around for Almost two Months! Mind you and every last one of you as I stated you may have it and not know it because it lurks silently on your computer disabling your virus scanner from picking it up. For every infected program you run on your computer it makes copies of itself in another program spreading like wild fire and even opens your firewall (if you have one) allowing OTHER annoying and deadly viruses "walk" right "in" to your comp and you wouldn't know, why? Simple again... Disabled Virus Scanner (and we all know a disabled virus scanner doesn't do rum dum diddly sqat at protecting your comp).
So Download this program which doesn't get infected by the virus oddly O__o Seems the virus wasn't 'taught' to 'disable' it like the others. When you download it save it to your desktop. Then shut down your computer and run your computer in Safe mode. Run the CureIt program once in safe mode.
The reason why you should run it in safe mode (Regular Safe mode, NOT Safe Mode with networking ..etc) is because this virus INFECTS things in your SYSTEM PROCESSES. Meaning this bad boy is running ALL..THE..BLOODY TIME and you never know it. CureIt will scan your system processes first and if the virus is found it'll cure it then when it's down with that click each Hard drive that needs to be scanned (Some people have one others like myself have two or more in their computers). You'll know if you've clicked a Hard drive because it'll have a small red like dot over it in the menu for the virus scanner.
DO NOT scan just one Hard drive if you have multiple Hard drives in your computer, scan them all! Reason being is it spreads from hard drive to hard drive as well. IF You've found your comp is indeed infected with this PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEASE tell everyone you have on your instant messenger list that you might have sent ANY files to and give them the link to do a scan on their own computer as well.
-_-; You see... Once you know your comp has/had this thing tis highly possible you've unknowingly sent it to someone else! Anyone using Pee-2-Pee (P2P) programs like you know That MAGICAL Stuff we use to get music without getting a whole CD just for a few songs...
Dear god.. SCAN!
>_>; DO IT AND DO IT NOW!!! DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MOMENT!! SCAN YOUR COMPUTERS!!
For further details on the virus:
info.drweb.com/show/2815/en
For the Program to scan your comp with to make SURE you don't have it:
ftp.drweb.com/pub/drweb/cureit/drweb-cureit.exe
Among this list is
Norton
McAfee
AVG Anti-Virus
Panda Antivirus
PC Chillin
The Virus is called Win32.Polipos
and you all may not even know you have it. Trust me if it's left alone too long it will cause your Hard Drive to act like it's on the brink of total destruction. This includes various problems that have been reported (.i.e. Computers rebooting themselves after a certain time period, Programs crashing for NO reason, Blue screens of Death, the inability to even RUN you virus scanner...etc). You see this virus infects just about any and EVERYTHING in sight specially any exeacutables (Programs, PC games O___O; ... The whole nine yards people). And to make it even scarier...
It infects....
INSTANT MESSENGERS!!!
Yes.. Yahoo, AiM, MSN...even ICQ and Trillian *cringe*
No, This isn't a joke. It's real..And how would I know... -_-; I just scanned my comp with the ONE program that is able to detect it due to the fact the virus DOES NOT disable it and allows it to pick it up. McAfee and Norton doesn't even HAVE this bloody virus IN it's definitions and it's been running around for Almost two Months! Mind you and every last one of you as I stated you may have it and not know it because it lurks silently on your computer disabling your virus scanner from picking it up. For every infected program you run on your computer it makes copies of itself in another program spreading like wild fire and even opens your firewall (if you have one) allowing OTHER annoying and deadly viruses "walk" right "in" to your comp and you wouldn't know, why? Simple again... Disabled Virus Scanner (and we all know a disabled virus scanner doesn't do rum dum diddly sqat at protecting your comp).
So Download this program which doesn't get infected by the virus oddly O__o Seems the virus wasn't 'taught' to 'disable' it like the others. When you download it save it to your desktop. Then shut down your computer and run your computer in Safe mode. Run the CureIt program once in safe mode.
The reason why you should run it in safe mode (Regular Safe mode, NOT Safe Mode with networking ..etc) is because this virus INFECTS things in your SYSTEM PROCESSES. Meaning this bad boy is running ALL..THE..BLOODY TIME and you never know it. CureIt will scan your system processes first and if the virus is found it'll cure it then when it's down with that click each Hard drive that needs to be scanned (Some people have one others like myself have two or more in their computers). You'll know if you've clicked a Hard drive because it'll have a small red like dot over it in the menu for the virus scanner.
DO NOT scan just one Hard drive if you have multiple Hard drives in your computer, scan them all! Reason being is it spreads from hard drive to hard drive as well. IF You've found your comp is indeed infected with this PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEASE tell everyone you have on your instant messenger list that you might have sent ANY files to and give them the link to do a scan on their own computer as well.
-_-; You see... Once you know your comp has/had this thing tis highly possible you've unknowingly sent it to someone else! Anyone using Pee-2-Pee (P2P) programs like you know That MAGICAL Stuff we use to get music without getting a whole CD just for a few songs...
Dear god.. SCAN!
>_>; DO IT AND DO IT NOW!!! DON'T WASTE ANOTHER MOMENT!! SCAN YOUR COMPUTERS!!
For further details on the virus:
info.drweb.com/show/2815/en
For the Program to scan your comp with to make SURE you don't have it:
ftp.drweb.com/pub/drweb/cureit/drweb-cureit.exe