So I sits down to my Houston Command And Control Center of computers here this evening as I do at the end of each day, and I flicks on the POWER and watch as the lights of San Diego dim as 1.6 Jigawattz of `letricity course through the throbbing veins of The Screamer, The New Turd, The FrAnKeNpUtEr and the new kid on the block ... The Lap-O-Puter!

Easy by easy I sneaks up on the mundane tasks that fill my evenings.   I launch my e-mail client ... and ... ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!

All kidding aside, the moment Outlook finished loading, PC-cillin put up a warning that a virus had been detected and cleaned in an e-mail message that had just arrived.   Kudos to Trend.   Gotta say, I'm very happy with PC-cillin.

And that's all I have to say about that.

;~* ... Scotterpops

Only Scotter Poop would use the phrase "rips ass" and have it mean a good thing :)

Remember to stick a "Magistrate" between that ripps and that ass!

;~* ... Scotterpops

PC-cillin is pretty good, I'm happy with it also.

A customer had a bout with magistr, many infected files on his system. All uncleanable by neither trend nor norton, nor trend's "fix" tool that they provided for download. So he called me lol. The problem was, those files were all in use by Windows, I think.

What I used to deal with it was the DOS f-prot program (I keep the latest, with the latest defs on a CD-R and do a clean boot with a custom made boot disk with cdrom drivers). This program was able to clean every file. No damage to his system. I was quite impressed, because at that point I was going to delete every infected file and extract them all the hard assed way. Very good program.

Incidently, he had KAK as well but I wasn't the slightest bit worried about that... cleaning that up was trivial in comparison. (magistr is nasty... if win.com or ntldr gets infected a destructive payload will soon be triggered)

After that, it was just a couple of registry entries to remove, and I did an online scan with housecall to get a clean bill of health.

Grogan, could you expand on your CD dos application of whatever the "prot-f" program is...? Does NAV have a dos option? Otherwise, how would anyone clean a running file? Unless, as you were about to do, save the files off to a CD and clean them outside of a WIN environment.

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/tools.shtml

;~* ... Scotterpops

Yeah, there's a whole slew of bitchin' F-Prot cleaners available for free.   I added a link to their page in my Security section a couple of months ago because it sure seems like they'd come in handy in an emergency.   I guess I was right.

;~* ... Scotterpops

Good to hear that my future virus software is proclaimed the best by the duke of cyber systems. :7

Snow White tried to jump in bed with me a coupla hours ago but NAV kicked her out before I could get my hands on her. :-)
Sure a lotta stuff going around.

Yeah, I have had magistr B sent to me at least six times in the last few weeks, twice by someone e-mailing me for computer help from this forum! NAV stopped them all in their tracks, of course.

BTW, NAV does have a DOS level virus utility.

I was about to ask that. but you asked first.




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Shelly,
I know you're a straight shooter and probably would've told the offender, but since I've emailed you a couple times recently...was I the culprit?

Only if you keep your rescue disk set current with the latest definitions (otherwise you're stuck with the defs from the emergency disk that came in the box, which isn't so bad if you've got a very recent version of NAV). Most people wouldn't think of that until it's too late (despite the alerts in the Nav program that rescue disks need to be updated... "surely that doesn't mean me").

So: What are all NAV users going to do today? Check for a LiveUpdate and make a current rescue disk set, if you haven't already. This could really save your ass. (However, if your defs are always current, and you run Autoprotect and practice safe computing you'll never get to the point where you'll need an Antivirus rescue disk)

The rescue disk is only good for a specific PC though because it contains system specific information.

>BTW, NAV does have a DOS level virus utility.

Dang, I'd forgotten about F-Prot.

Haven't used that since I was in school in '98. It kept all the networking cleaned out at school. Had it on a floppy to clean PC's with. Worked like a charm, too.

"Industrial strength", as it were. :)

Thanks for the reminder, Scotterpops! I've bookmarked that one, too.