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| Thread ID: 30609 | 2003-02-25 06:04:00 | Something odd... "net.dde" | honeylaser (814) | Press F1 |
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| 123772 | 2003-02-25 06:04:00 | I had the oddest thing happen before I left work today. I was finishing up some work, with only Outlook and 1 IE 6 window open, and went to minimise all my windows. All of a sudden, about 50 windows popped up at once - Outlook, Word, Excel, IE, MSN Messenger (which I uninstalled), McAfee AV, Explorer. The only recognisable headers on any of the windows was "net.dde". Most of the others were blank. I had just installed McAfee Virus Defense Suite a few hours beforehand, and I had done a full virus scan with the latest updates not long before. A virus scan after a forced reboot found nothing at all. As mentioned in my other thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz), I haven't been able to run Windows Update, so none of the critical security patches have been installed since XP Pro was trashed and reinstalled on the machine. We have a Netscreen 5XP firewall, so I don't think it could have been someone trying to get in... but could it be? My searches for net.dde come up with security/IIS/vulnerability type pages. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123773 | 2003-02-25 22:47:00 | FYI... checked the firewall management logs this morning, and nothing suss. Have reinstalled XPP from scratch this morning and restored vital files from a backup I did yesterday afternoon. Not suprisingly, I can actually run Windows Update now (must have been something funky in the XP setup). I guess the point of this thread now is just "huh?" I'd still be interested in finding out if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone has any ideas as to what it may have been. I don't have any gaping security vulnerabilities anymore (yay!) and nothing seems amiss. But maybe thats the calm before the storm? |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123774 | 2003-02-26 00:28:00 | Maybe your boss "fixed" it again. X-( Show him the hammer. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 123775 | 2003-02-26 01:08:00 | > Maybe your boss "fixed" it again. X-( Maybe he did :D But now I'm being accused by the engineers of fiddling with setting and breaking my PC. They don't trust me! Every time something goes wrong, apparently it's my fault. Sheesh. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123776 | 2003-04-11 00:25:00 | It happened again! This time I was prepared, and my machine even stayed upright long enough for me to get a snapshot of the cheeky daemon at work! sal.neoburn.net sal.neoburn.net Any ideas now? Since my original post I have installed all critical updates and SPs, virus scan every day, and yet this still happens. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123777 | 2003-04-11 00:54:00 | One word for this and that is "weird" ?:| Does any one have any ides???? |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 123778 | 2003-04-11 02:40:00 | DDE is "Dynamic Data Exchange - A function that enables the exchange of data between different applications (whatis.techtarget.com)", apparently, in case anyone was going to look it up. What a noggin scratcher. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123779 | 2003-04-11 02:58:00 | check your scheduled tasks etc. Might be a workmate playing a prank on you | PoWa (203) | ||
| 123780 | 2003-04-11 03:20:00 | > check your scheduled tasks etc. Might be a workmate > playing a prank on you I doubt it! If you knew my workmates you would understand. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary running. No-one has installed anything on this machine that I am aware of (I have the password, no-one else does). We do have a couple of servers though - a Novell, a web filter server & terminal server, which I am connected to. No-one else has had the same problem though, so I am assuming that it is this machine only. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 123781 | 2003-04-11 09:02:00 | Why what are your workmates like? You can never be too sure about anyone you know.. Maybe it was a April Fools but had a delayed activation.. | PoWa (203) | ||
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