Norton help needed 'outbreak alert'

maisy-mai

have managed to do one computer now just restored to yesterday then downloaded up date seeme to solve it .

does this mean we have it then( the virus) i took it that we needed to update norton to protect us from it ?
help ????
maisy-mai

maisy-mai

did scan both comps and full scan didnt detect anything

Jem8472

I think it was saying that there is this virus out there but they dont have a removale tool for it. I think it was just a warning not actually saying that your computers were infected. came up on my dads computer but he does not have a virus.

tired_mum

morning all after all my fiddling around with the protect now buton and live update downloads the computer seems to have decided that this morning it will now protect itself so hope everyone elses has done the same

theboylard

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hapless

GreenNotM

maisy-mai wrote:

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does this mean we have it then( the virus)
help ????
maisy-mai

If you clicked on an attachment in an email then you may/will have the virus.

Best to never click on attachments, esp just to see what they maybe !:eek:

And keep your virus definitions upto date.

To check if you may have the infection do a search for "wincom32.sys" & "peers.ini "and "game*.exe". If you find these files - follow the above removal instruction (don't pay anything ) But you must restart your pc in safe mode (press F8) and do the scans ... not while on the internet.

This threat was warned about recently on the forum http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=355395
News here and here

Seems sadly the virus writers are evolving the trojan all the time. See here http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/trojanpeacomm_part_2_the_botne.html

So if anyone was wondering where all the "stock advice" spam was coming from -- it is this bot net and others.

symantec wrote:

So, what is the purpose of all this renewed activity, you ask? The primary goal is to create a botnet that sends tons and tons of penny stock spam (but because the botnet can be controlled by its owners, we may see changes in functionality). During our tests we saw an infected machine sending a burst of almost 1,800 emails in a five-minute period and then it just stopped. We are speculating that the task of sending the junk email is then passed on to another member of the botnet. My colleagues in the antispam team are seeing greater activity, too.