Hallmark E cards attack

[Charles Jones]

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