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Thread ID: 123401	2012-02-22 08:50:00	High Risk Virus	Nhashon (16466)	Press F1

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1260707	2012-02-23 08:55:00	I got a Conficker infection, which while pretty benign is difficult to purge. It happened when my phone line was cut during a strike by the maintenance techos (offline for the whole month!), so I was suddenly seriously dependant on using whatever internet enabled machine I could find. I was also committed to publishing online stuff each week, and commuting to Blenheim and back each week as well, using a USB stick at each workplace, and at my accommodation to do whatever I could whenever I could. Turns out the conficker got on at the place where I was staying. THe host said the alert from the anti-virus app was a false positive, so I had no other option than to ignore it at the time and carry on. From there it went to the work system in Blenheim (my host was also my employer, so it may have already been infected there from his own activities), then got transferred back to my own regular workplace. My own home system was still W98, which was immune to Conficker, but every XP machine that stick touched got an infection that raced through the network. A lot of the AV vendors were useless regarding detection and removal. I finally got an app called KidoKiller (KK.exe) that would do part of the removal. I'd then have to go through the registry to get rid of the remaining traces that saw the machine reinfect itself from a bogus system file at every restart. Hated that infection, even without a damaging payload.	Paul.Cov (425)
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