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| Thread ID: 25282 | 2002-09-30 10:09:00 | Hoax/virus or ???? | Colpol (444) | Press F1 |
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| 84728 | 2002-09-30 10:09:00 | Recieved an email from a person unknown to me. It contained an attachment (asiata.ref..doc.scr). It was scanned on the way down by NAV and one look at the name made me save and manually scan it. once again no virus found. Tried to run it and ZA said it wanted permission to access the net.--DENIED. The program that tried to access was called fvoh.exe. Any idea what it is?? | Colpol (444) | ||
| 84729 | 2002-09-30 10:17:00 | i don't know if its a virus(or trojen), it could well be a spyware screensaver. seeing you don't know the person i woud have killed it without even trying it. is your antivirus upto date? | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 84730 | 2002-09-30 11:08:00 | Anything with a .scr extension you don't need or want. It will be junk or quite often a virus. Ignore and delete, don't attempt to open. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 84731 | 2002-10-01 03:33:00 | Anything with an extension of SCR is a screen saver and they basically act just like an EXE so don't ever try to run one unless you know it is truely a screen saver. Also anyone running windows should always make sure extensions of known file types are not hidden as you see (asiata.ref..doc) instead of (asiata.ref..doc.scr) and so can think it an innocent file. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 84732 | 2002-10-01 04:42:00 | It's probably that new Bugbear virus. That uses double extensions & your virus scanner won't recognise it as a virus until you update your virus definitions. Update & scan it again. |
Peter Johnson (650) | ||
| 84733 | 2002-10-01 06:17:00 | I don't think that there are any legitimate files for MS computers with two extensions. Any file with ".doc.scr" is certainly made with malevolent intention. DELETE DELETE. Never, ever, run such a thing. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 84734 | 2002-10-13 23:01:00 | Hi there, I think I may have the same problem. I have an Iworm/BUGBEAR virus and I used the AVG thingee I downloaded. Its detected the virus, there r 3 infected files (which it won't let me remove) I can't even quarantine them. I need Nortons Antivirus 2003 version. its too expensive!!!!! | secureman1 (2089) | ||
| 84735 | 2002-10-13 23:25:00 | Download the Symantec Bugbear removal tool, disable System Restore and zapp the critter Symantec also has a online virus scanner! Symantec removal tool available here: securityresponse.symantec.com |
Baldy (26) | ||
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