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| 271665 | 2004-09-12 22:02:00 | Recently I reinstalled WinXP on the wife's lappie. Tried to d/l Zonealarm, etc in stead of using one of the PCW disks. Once everything installed, did a check with AVG/Ad-Aware/Spybot. To my horror found that I had about 5 virii and about 7 trojans - and I've been one the net only to d/l ZA - say 20 mins. The disks I used to reinstall are clean as. Is this possible - not having any protection and getting so many virii in such a short time? In any case - all other guys trying the same thing - beware Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 271666 | 2004-09-12 22:15:00 | Did you update XP with all security patches before going on line? (from a CD) Di you activate XP's built in firewall before going on line? If not, then that's the expected outcome. You cannot connect XP unpatched and without a firewall even for a few seconds without becoming infected. Sad but true. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 271667 | 2004-09-12 23:22:00 | But godfather, it took only 20 mins of "unprotected" on-line time - surely it can't happen that fast? And no - no update yet and no activation of firewall - I mean I was busy d/ling ZA for that purpose. What amazed me was the speed of infection - shees, quicker and more than I've seen in my life. Most of them were "older" style virii and trojans - like Istbar, etc. Luckily they were removed by AVG and the rest I got rid off by inactivating _Restore. Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 271668 | 2004-09-12 23:25:00 | I would say you recieved the first infection within seconds of connecting to the net,that crap is bouncing around non-stop. Inabling the inbuilt Windows firewall would have helped. |
metla (154) | ||
| 271669 | 2004-09-12 23:32:00 | if you had istbar i would suspect you have either surfed to a nasty site before you had windows updates done or it was installed with a program you installed on the pc. istbar dosn't spread like a trojen, you have to go to a site with it or install it yourself. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 271670 | 2004-09-12 23:33:00 | I remember... back in the days... I was getting a new connection attempt every 2-3 seconds at its peak :-( Infection attempts have slowed majorly, but its still common out there! Sucked being on Dial-Up at the time too. I would suggest (If at all possible) you slipstream your WinXP Setup Disc with Service Pack 2. The Service Pack 2 is free from Microsoft - They'll even post it out to you on a CD. Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 271671 | 2004-09-12 23:52:00 | Here (www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/infected_in20_minutes/) is an article about the 20 minutes that is all it takes. :D | mark c (247) | ||
| 271672 | 2004-09-12 23:53:00 | www.theregister.co.uk Sorry, bunged that link up. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 271673 | 2004-09-13 02:05:00 | > But godfather, it took only 20 mins of "unprotected" > on-line time - surely it can't happen that fast? Yep & what I have read the time it takes to get infection has started to go down, I think it is even less then 20 mins of "unprotected" on-line time. |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 271674 | 2004-09-13 20:28:00 | Thanks Chill - got the SP2 already - as well as the latest one | sarel (2490) | ||
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