A virus- oh bugger

[iguana]

Hi all it seems ive got some kind of virus on my e-mail as of about 10am today. So to anyone who has ever e-mailed me if you are getting e-mails from me from 10am onwards dont open them.
I think it came from one of my Hotmail adresses and has now got into my freeserve outlook account, I have no idea how to get rid of it, any good ideas?

Ps appologies If ive fu*ked up your PC too.

[pdv6]

Get a good virus checker - there's plenty around for download. Oh, and keep its store of virus definitions up to date.

Which virus?

[pdv6]

There's a list of free anti virus programs here

[CarZee]

Hotmail is supposed to scan everything with McAfee - if your problem came from them, forward teh offending email & payload to [e-mail] with a subject heading HOTMAIL VIRUS ALERT!

As for de-lousing your PC, well you can download trial versions of most of the mainstream AV proggies - I suggest you start at www.McAfee.com

The specific action that must be taken depends on which virus it is - have a look at the virus search engines/libraries at mcAfee or Symantec for instructions.. some viruses ther are little downloadable fixes than don't require an anti-virus program at all....

[rude girl]

You can either download, or virus-scan 'live' online from http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

It'll either clean up for you, or give you instructions what to do as well.

[JonRB]

As I said to one of Cosmic's friends recently who got herself a dose of BugBear and didn't have AV software:

"In this day and age, there is no more excuse for connecting to the internet without anti-virus software than there is for leaving your car unlocked or your front door wide open"

[dern]

If anyone has been infected by Alex's virus then this is the information you need...

This is a descrption of the virus you have and instructions on how to get rid of it...

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99273

...and this is microsoft's patch to get rid of it or perhaps it just stops you getting it... worth a read anyway...

www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp

The email was intercepted by my email people (easily.co.uk) and they sent me a report which, firstly, I didn't know they did and, secondly, pretty cool.

Regards,

Mark

[Graham.J]

If anyone has the bugbear virus, send me an email and i'll send you the eradication program.

Regards

Graham

[JonRB]

Graham.J said: If anyone has the bugbear virus, send me an email and i'll send you the eradication program.

Or a safer route might be to get it direct from Symantec here

[andyvdg]

I think bugbear is particually contageous. I run AV software and this is the first one it's ever found -about a week ago. My dad's computer acutally "caught" it as his virus definitions were about a month old. btw it seems to do nasty things like send all your keypresses off to somewhere on the internet.....

[Graham.J]

JonRB said:

Graham.J said: If anyone has the bugbear virus, send me an email and i'll send you the eradication program.

Or a safer route might be to get it direct from Symantec here

Or you could get it from there.

[iguana]

Cheers all it was/is Exploilt-MIME virus.

Anyway I've downloaded a patch but don't know which internet explorer version I've got 5.5 or 5.01 how do I find out? I just clicked on the 5.5 verion coz it ws the first one! I've got to do this to 2 different computers.

Thanks.

[pdv6]

Help -> About

[plotloss]

Help>About Internet Explorer

Matt.

[iguana]

Cheers guys, but I still cant get it to tell me what version ive got

[pdv6]

Search for iexplore.exe (probably in c:windows\system or equivalent, depending on Windows version, or possibly c:\program files\internet explorer).

Right click the file, select 'Properties' and look for the version number there (may be a 'Version' tab in the properties screen).

>> Edited by pdv6 on Thursday 7th November 17:11

[iguana]

Cool done that one computer = newer one has version 6.00.2600 the other old one 5.50.4522

so i guess im ok with the 5.5 download for the older PC but need to search for a 6 version for the newer one?

Cheers for all this BTW im totally computer inept - as if you couldnt tell!!

[iguana]

Well its coming up for 1.30am and ive done just about all I can do tonight. the newer computer seems ok, but the older one will not accept any of the virus downloads, or the housecall scan thing, its gets to around 60% then crashes, although it seems to have loaded Vcatch just now so hopefully that might work. Perhaps the memory is too small?

I know a few of you are going to have clogged inboxes from me, as so far I have well over 300 of these sodding returned back messages that just seem to be binging around the net, before ending up back with me. every time I log on my e-mail there are over 40 e-mails of this crap.

Oh well no wonder you IT guys get paid so much coz this pissing about with computers lark is a soddin' nightmere!! tell ya boss I told him ya deserve a raise!

Could anyone with a cast iron virus guard thingy be my test case to email to, thus seeing if ive got rid of transmitting it pleeeeeease.. Then if thats sorted ill work out how to actually get the virus off it some other way if it wont take the downloads

Anyway thanks again for all the help guys(and gals) my bed beckons now!

Edited coz the spelling was so bad even I counldnt read it

>> Edited by iguana on Friday 8th November 01:28

[nubbin]

Anyone had an e-mail hedaed - "jtspeed, hi, [your username], some questions", with two attachments with no content? I wondered if this was a virus.

Also, slightly off-topic, I tried to load Norton antivirus, and Utilities, and got an error message saying unable to find "confxg.exe" - I think that was the spelling. Anyone know what this means?

[iguana]

nubbin said: Anyone had an e-mail headed - "jtspeed, hi, [your username], some questions", with two attachments with no content? I wondered if this was a virus.

Yip thats pretty much how I got this one, mine was from someone like big_dave