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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on December 02, 2001, 10:12:00 am

Title: Possible Virus, will be back ASAP
Post by: Fineus on December 02, 2001, 10:12:00 am

As title says - wish me luck, It'll be a miracle if I don't loose the HD. Bye all.

Title: Possible Virus, will be back ASAP
Post by: aldo_14 on December 02, 2001, 10:13:00 am

Good luck - I know the feeling.

Title: Possible Virus, will be back ASAP
Post by: Nico on December 02, 2001, 10:23:00 am

 

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Originally posted by aldo_14:
Good luck - I know the feeling.

who doesn't?

Title: Possible Virus, will be back ASAP
Post by: Fineus on December 02, 2001, 10:26:00 am

It appears to have been beaten.

It was called the Columbia Virus, I activated it from a Visual Basic script I thought was something else. It promptly started duplicating copies of itself named as other files on the system, and making those files hidden so that it looked like it'd overwritten them. I think I killed it by ctrl/alt/deleting the script and then deleting every .VBS file on the computer.

If anyone's run into this before and knows I've done the right/wrong thing then please tell me - I don't want to go through this again!

Title: Possible Virus, will be back ASAP
Post by: Fineus on December 02, 2001, 10:57:00 am

Closed, please see the next topic...