Hallmark E cards attack

[Ryan Rix]

Hi,

I use AVAST BART cd for my recovery. It's not a full XP live cd, only boots
to a minimal 98 or so install, no start menu or anything; it provides a cmd
prompt with check disk and such, and AVAST AV, and some other disk utils,
including a registry editor.

Of course it's neither free nor Free... :(

~Ryan

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:

> I gave him a copy of a bootcd that I found somewhere some time ago,
> "UBCD4WIN". It boots a live-cd of WindowsXP from a CD, and also contains
> various anti-virus and anti-spyware tools and utilities. So you boot
> from the CD and since its a liveCD you can safely connect to the network
> and update the AV signatures before doing a scan and clean. Pretty handy
> for fixing winblows issues.
>
> -Charles
>
> Stephen wrote:
> > a bootable AV screen is probably going to be needed, you may find some
> > specific tools on mcaffe and symantec sites.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Charles Jones
> > <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> >
> >> What all is involved in the fix? One of my co-workers apparently got his
> >> laptop zapped by it. From what he said it infects the winlogon.exe, so
> not
> >> only do you have to clean the virus from loading, but you have to
> replace
> >> the winlogin.exe with a known good copy.  What a pain. Personally I
> cannot
> >> believe that any mail filters still allow .exe file attachments, or that
> >> people would actually run a .exe file they received in email!
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Jamie Shackles
> >> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ; arnoldwilliams at cox.net ;
> ricky b
> >> ; Jill Bain ; Ricky Bezanson ; fernalena golding ; RUDY H ; Vince None ;
> >> Joey Prestia
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:21 PM
> >> Subject: Hallmark E cards attack
> >> I don't know if anyone else has been receiving these ehallmark
> postcards,
> >> but *don't open it*  I have been getting about 3 a day, but I saw them
> for
> >> what they were worth, and have not opened them.  My parents, on the
> other
> >> hand, did open it and it took a good 3 hours to fix the computer.  Nasty
> >> nasty virus!
> >>
> >> ~ Jamie
>
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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
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