Polonus, Thanks for the tips and the interesting but over-my-head reading.
Will it be safe to move HTM files from the original machine's HD?
And is the act of copying and moving enough to trigger an infection to spread?
All I want to copy are .doc, .mp3, and .htm files. The .htm files are negotiable.
Finally, I would like to know how I can tell if the USB drive is infected. I've got stick it in SOMETHING to reformat it.
Any hints?
Hi
Got the virus from a client's pc while trasfering files to my server so i could format the Hdd and insert another 500Gig Hdd
Main thing was that when i transfered a program to my Laptop via Lan and ran it things went crazy.
Laptop was redone more than 7 times and ts gone why so many re-do's lol
(each time I used some of the backups on the server.)oops!
The last time i re did the laptop I saw in posts to not use ANY FILES FROM ANY BACKUP UNLESS SCANNED
So i scanned and tranfered via Memory stick.
NOW........ Last nite i copied some other files first scanning them with my FAV Antivirus (AVAST!) hehehe
copied to mem stick moved it to my laptop ..no problems.
Later I Scaaned an small folder with HTML files in and no virus, I moved them to my Laptop and opend the HTML file
WHAT A MISTAKE!!!!
The first thing Avast picked up was "Sign Of "Win32:Trojan-Gen{Other} has been found in *path*
I deleted it - then all went pear shaped ....
Sign of "Win32:Vitro has been found c:\windows\systemm32\NOTEPAD.EXE"
then accwiz.exe etc etc....... arrrrrrgghhhh
I wanted to fly down and strangle the clever idiot who wrote this thing.
My laptop (the one im using now) is infected
No files are being murderd at this stage because of the setting that allows or denies write acces to the files the system uses - so for now i am safe in that its not spreading.
I opend the code in the HTML fiel i opend and there it was an Iframe with code next to it - BASTARD
PLEASE DO NOT COPY HTML FILES FROM ANY BACKUP IT CONTAINS THE CODE TO IMPLEMENT THE VIRUS ON YOUR SYSTEM!
sigh.... so i guess i am re doing my machine ...AGAIN today -
HINT FOR ANY DEVELOPERS OUT THERE : I am realy thinking a "Virtual Machine" is my next option becuase the Dot Net 2008 and SQL 2008 takes hours to install
Cheers