Comments on: New virus infects PCs, whacks SCO

A mass-mailing virus that has quickly spread around the Internet uses victims' computers to launch a massive denial-of-service attack on the controversial SCO Group.

[ww2vet54]

Win32.Nuvens.AK (NEW VIRUS)

Yesterday I was working on line and I decided to run a VScan. I use Zone 2006 Suite. So I take a break and come back after the scan. I see New! igh Risk! Can Not Be Cleaned! New! Unknown!...
(Win32.Nuvens.AK ) so it is identified. So I hop on line to search it out. "NOTHING" Anyware. No Mcafee or Norton Stinger, Nothing at PC Cillin (Trend), Nothing ay AVG or Bit Defender sites...
I figure maybee a false alarm, so I uninstall my zone and load up PC Cillin. Run the scan and Bingo. It also flags tiis creature. No, not a false alarm. I emiedatly back up my files and spens hours doing a manual search 1 kernal at a time, Nothing! The PC starts to slow. I try a re-boot in safe mode to do a restore. The restore will not complete. Luckily I have a back up hard drive so I switch out and I'm o.k. I thought I would provide this info so the pros could get at it. I,m wondering if this is the same one I soe bloged here?

[linuxkid66]

re format your hard drive. will clean everything out and just like new :)

windows... when it rains, it pours.
should have got a linux

[Jack Moran]

Marketing HiJack (Virus)

I recently went to a legitimate webpage only to find that it had been hacked, and a "virus" was dumped on me.

The webpage downloaded a bunch of crap to my system that causes my browser to redirect based on certain key words in the webpage I am loading (my guess). It also pops up a marketing message and suggestions that I go to a page called www.dxcdirect.com

I cannot find an antivirus software to counter this or that will even find the culprit routines!

Any suggestions?

[LrdRyu]

you could try hitman pro 2
it's free but be sure to have a backup of important files ( it tends to kill certain files that are allowed but display a small malfunction )
it's a pretty heavy scan ( uses 7 different anti-viruses and anti spywares ) but one time i had a worm that opened my ports ( all of them ) so the virusses came swarming in, i used it and my computer was fixed ( after 6.5 hours ) .... well exept my video card ( the driver was infected and there for destroid ) but that was redownload able

ooh and did i mantion it was FREE and trust able

[ultralevy123]

i don't have it on my computer (i think0, but my schools districts server has it i believe)

[linuxkid66]

this virus is actually very easy to avoid... like they mentioned above, many mail servers like aol (and yahoo i believe) can stop .exe files from entering. back door trojans use open ports on your computer, simply make sure that only necessary ports are open with the right security. the easiest way to avoid this virus? simple... what have many people done because of all these windows errors?? windows is infamous for letting you get hacked. maybe you should use linux instead ;)

[linuxkid66]

this virus is actually very easy to avoid... like they mentioned above, many mail servers like aol (and yahoo i believe) can stop .exe files from entering. back door trojans use open ports on your computer, simply make sure that only necessary ports are open with the right security. the easiest way to avoid this virus? simple... what have many people done because of all these windows errors?? windows is infamous for letting you get hacked. maybe you should use linux instead ;)

[sandeep_indus]

I have XP but I don't worry about these viruses or spywares. I have tech guys of IT24BY7 with me. I have their unlimited subscription and whenever I have any issues with my laptop, I call them and they remote in and fix my problem.

These folks are awesome. I recommend their service to everyone.

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[gpsekaron]

i have a problem in my computer auto shut down after 3 min no errors or no meseges

[websitehandyman]

Here a new one on me, torrent users should take note !

So you download a video file, perhaps a film or other but when you run it your media player comes up with a message - You don't have the licence needed to play this file, click here to download the free licence.

You do that and still can't run the file but what you don't know is you've installed a virus. I've yet to see the full force of this virus but it does try to access web sites. Soon as it did that Avast found it. So I did a full scan and it found infected files which were deleted. Everything was fine for a while, then on bootup in vista gave an "authentication" message and I couldn't get in. A restore failed but a memory check got me back up again. But althought the pc is working find it has tried to access a web page again and avast blocked that.

If anyone identifys the virus I would like to know but I'll track down sooner or later.