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224599 2004-03-23 11:14:00 my friend recieved a email
with a attachment is "part4" .. and she is not sure about the extension but .. she says it's .gas and the icon is one for exe

and files in the computer got replace with funny files names
like..
zxcvbnm.zip ..they are all zip files around 35kbs
word files and some jpg files also other files got replaced

sadly she didn't hav a av on so.. files dissapeared and she's woried
also there's constant beep from the motherbord speaker..



anyone can identify this virus
heni72847 (1166)
224600 2004-03-23 11:43:00 it might be W32.mydoomF.

can he/she run an online scanner such as housecall?
tweak'e (174)
224601 2004-03-23 11:53:00 yes.. scanning online now..
trying out trend symatic and mcfee's online scan...
waiting for results...
heni72847 (1166)
224602 2004-03-23 13:52:00 Sounds to me like NetSky-D

Register Article:
Netsky-D makes your PC go beep, beep, beep
www.theregister.co.uk

Quote:
Tomorrow morning (March 2) between 06:00am and 08:59am the worm will try to activate PC speakers into making a constant beeping noise. It's unclear if this is simply more mischief or an attempt to push infected users into cleaning up their PCs.

Removal Tool:
securityresponse.symantec.com
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438)
224603 2004-03-24 05:09:00 after scanning it seems to be W32.mydoomF.
now.. is there a way to recover the data lost??
heni72847 (1166)
224604 2004-03-24 07:30:00 > is there a way to recover the data lost??

From backups?

If the files got deleted she could try looking in the Recycle Bin but I wouldn't hold my breath that they would be there .

Other than that, unfortunately it doesn't look like they are recoverable . :-(
Susan B (19)
224605 2004-03-24 10:24:00 would normal data recovery program work?
or does the worm destroy files so they can't be recovered?
heni72847 (1166)
224606 2004-03-24 10:27:00 mayby. sorry i have no idea on how it deletes the files. if they are not over written you mightget some back. tweak'e (174)
224607 2004-03-24 13:07:00 I hardly think it's using a secure data deletion process. Any normal recovery program should be able to pick them up.

Peculiar though... I never heard of MyDoom making the PC Speaker go nuts... weird.
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438)
224608 2004-03-24 22:29:00 > would normal data recovery program work?
> or does the worm destroy files so they can't be recovered?

From Symantec:

If the drive is a hard drive, remote drive, or RAM drive, the worm randomly deletes the files it finds with the following probability:

. mdb - 98%
. doc - 40%
. xls - 60%
. sav - 95%
. jpg - 8%
. avi - 10%
. bmp - 15%

So it is possible that data recovery could recover the files but not guaranteed .


> Peculiar though . . . I never heard of MyDoom making the PC Speaker go nuts . . . weird .

Symantec's latest newsletter says that the Netsky . D virus causes the PC speaker to beep on certain days at certain times but I wouldn't have taken that to mean that the speaker "goes nuts" . Apparently it is supposed to make the user think that the computer is on the way out .
Susan B (19)
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