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06-11-2003, 02:57 PM
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You might find this interesting...
I did a fresh install of win2000 (reformatted through setup).
First, I installed my Nvidia display driver. Second, I installed my monitor driver. Third, I installed my ethernet card driver. Fourth, I used Windows update to get all the critical updates and service packs. I didn't go to any websites (other than windows update) and I didn't check my mail or anything. That's when I noticed I had the lovegate virus. Strange, isn't it? |
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06-11-2003, 03:21 PM
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Probably one of your driver files is infected.
If it's a remnant of your previous install, and not a NEW download... |
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06-11-2003, 03:35 PM
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So neither of those cleaners can detect if my files are infected?
What good are they then? Last edited by KlumpDud; 06-11-2003 at 03:46 PM. |
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06-11-2003, 03:55 PM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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When you put in your nic, did you network to any other computers in your house/office? How about emails?
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...gate.h@mm.html |
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06-11-2003, 03:56 PM
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where do you drivers originate from
factory cd's or downloaded?
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06-11-2003, 04:07 PM
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Do you have any saved emails anywhere?
Do you have the drivers on a floppy, CDR, or other partition? Something you have contains the trojan, and it keeps getting reinstalled. What "cleaners" are you talking about? |
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06-11-2003, 04:31 PM
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I mean, neither of those AV programs (Norton Anti-Virus or Moosoft's The Cleaner) seems to be able to get rid of it permanently. It keeps coming back after reboots:
No, I have not checked email, nor do I have any saved email. I have not even accessed any internet sites other than the windows update. |
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06-11-2003, 05:16 PM
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NAV is notorious for missing things, especially if it hasn't been updated. Moosoft's Cleaner, same problem, and it never did get every trojan anyhow.
Where are you loading the drivers for your video and NIC from? If you have multiple partitions, are you scanning ALL of them? Have you been to http://housecall.antivirus.com yet? |
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06-11-2003, 06:50 PM
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reboot, that housecall plugin is not working: it won't install
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06-11-2003, 07:21 PM
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06-12-2003, 01:48 AM
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1. How do I delete my system restore points?
2. I just reformatted and found a file on my HD called AVG6DB_F.dat, could that be a malicious file? |
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06-12-2003, 10:23 AM
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No, that's AVG anti-virus' signature file.
It could be that NAV thinks that it's a virus, because it contains the names of the viruses that AVG removes. |
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06-12-2003, 12:17 PM
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around2bit,
How do I delete my system restore points like you mentioned? |
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06-12-2003, 04:34 PM
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This is driving me nuts! I used 4 different AV programs, including the Lovegate removal tool. Reformatted, reinstalled windows, and it's back!
That leads me to the conclusion that it's somewhere on my D: Harddrive, but I've used a bunch of programs to scan and clean both my harddrives, so what am I supposed to do? |
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06-12-2003, 04:47 PM
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You don't have system restore or points since you are running W2K. ME and XP have them but not 2K.
You might have mentioned that you had another partition. Have you scanned that partition as well? |
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06-12-2003, 05:23 PM
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Yes, all the scanning that I did with all the anti-virus programs included both hard drives
Why can't any of the programs get rid of it? |
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06-12-2003, 08:34 PM
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If that is a big issue and it is I use a program now and then called wipe drive. It is on a floopy and destroys everything on the drive period. Depending on how big your drive is and how many times you write over it it can take a long time.
I had some viruses once that I could not get rid of, so when I wiped my hd drive clean I choose write x3 and it took 14 hrs for a 100GB drive. The makers say it is made to clean your HD of anything you don't want people to see and it is the same standards the department of difense uses. They say on wipe will make it impossible,and to expensive for anyone to find information on your HD.
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