{"id":599,"date":"2006-04-28T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=599"},"modified":"2007-10-09T03:57:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T19:57:20","slug":"vircrashpart00120060425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/599","title":{"rendered":"VirCrash.Part.001.2006.0425"},"content":{"rendered":"

VirCrash.Part.001.2006.0425<\/span><\/p>\n

PARCEL… MY home PC got infected with ‘that-which-I-would-not-speak-of’ (\/that-which-I-would-not-hyperlink) computer virus.<\/p>\n

This would be the first MAJOR infection of one my drones since 1996<\/span>. That was ten years ago. College days… just months after I was given a PC I could truly call mine.<\/p>\n

Yes… that experience was terrible enough that it caused me to religiously install\/run\/update five tools for protection. Along with a truckload of common sense (You can buy a dozen at a discounted price at Waltermart), cybernetically-enhanced instincts and paranoia. <\/p>\n

(Of course a pet tiger who could sniff computer viruses\/worms when hungry. (And this one’s hungry all the time.))<\/p>\n

A reliable anti-virus application, a paranoid ‘stand-alone’ firewall (no… not the one that comes bundled with SP2<\/span>), an all around —ware immunizer\/remover, and a couple of ‘top secret’ tools were there for me all these years. <\/p>\n

(Except for the —ware tool since these SPY\/MAL\/ETCwares just went fashionable a couple or more years ago but vhoi their growth almost made me forget the existence of ‘old school’ computer viruses.)<\/p>\n

What makes things more ironic is I got infected when I was downloading an update to one of my protection tools from a respectable site.<\/p>\n

Just like ten years ago when I was infected upon bringing home a copy of an infected set of virus definitions from our computer lab.<\/p>\n

(Edit… apparently judging from the trail of infected files after SEVEN HUGE hours of scanning, I got this days before… which makes the virus a ‘that-which-I-would-not-speak-or-even-think-of’. It might try infecting brainwave frequencies too.)<\/p>\n

I don’t have an internet connection at home so I depend on downloadable manual updates. (And probably CATALYST (the office PC) is not infected after all since it updates automatically but I’ll find out once I’m there.)<\/p>\n

It infects 32<\/span>-bit .exe files. And I probably felt the symptoms before when it would automatically rename the files I am copying to lowercase. I did suspect but seeing the dates and byte sizes to be what they should, and the processes panel showing no hoodlum-looking process, and items being intact after MSCONFIG-in’… I chose to ignore.<\/p>\n

As of now I’m not yet sure of what the root cause of this one is… let me waste my time and investigate further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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