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Win95/Spaces Virus Woes
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Posted by: Darky!
Last night i got a virus, win95/Spaces, this cirus does little more then corrupt all the executables on your harddrive onces its activated.
I finally got it removed. Goodie. Now i've run into a very large, and ugly problem. Windows fixed all the executeables on my C drive, but it didn't touch my FTP drive, it cleaned the virus out, but the files are still corrupted, for instance, lets say the divx4 codec, its only registering as 68kb, but the file is actually more like 2mb, the entire file is still there, but it won't install because its only registering 68kb or so of the file. It happened to all the executeables on my C drive, but windows repaired them all, or mcafee virus scanner did, one or the other.
I don't really know how to make it look at the D drive and repair all the .exe files. Another strange thing was it only killed certain exe files, not all of them, but anyway. Any ideas?
Posted by: Outlaw
Did you try scandisk?
I don't care what everyone says, I'm glad I always have my virusscanner running...
Posted by: Darky!
You know what? It infected my virus scanner. It also infected the installation file for it (Since i downloaded it from mcafee.com) so i can't install it again. I acctually discovered it didn't fix everything, i had to format c:, probably going to format d: as well. Heres another question. Can you format in a dos prompt under windows if the hard disk your formatting isn't in use?
Posted by: TotalRecall
I would assume so, because you can format drives by right clicking on the drive in Windows, correct?
Viruses aren't fun...good luck. 
Posted by: Darky!
Acctually, i was hopeing for more of a "Repair" job, where it would somehow "Un Corrupt" the .exe files, i lost alot of stuff so far, and looseing the D: drive is NOT an option.
Memn gave me a URL to a fix, but it only scans for the virus, and discenfects them, doesn't fix the files. I'm looking to REAPIR the files, the virus is alredy gone, but it left alot of damage in its wake that has to be repaired.
Posted by: one
and the bad news is that 2002 is slated to be a banner year for virus and sons.
I had a challenge recently and now I make sure I run the Norton, don't like McAfee, and make sure I have a backup. Took one good lesson to learn that.
Posted by: Shalome
As a network/information security tech, I would recommend Norton/Symantec. Make sure you check often for virus definition updates on their website http://www.symantec.com and download them as often as possible. I check about once a week, or whenever I hear of a new virus.
The company I work for checks daily. We're virus-free.
Posted by: Spork Lover
Shalome, you just had to use that new title eh :P much more flattering than uhh my current title.
I use Norton...and it didnt do crap for me. It said... hey you have a worm, oh but guess what, cant do anything about it. I was up the river, but I had a paddle... back up image.. Great job you did norton!
Posted by: Darky!
Norton is evil. Sheer evil. I'll stick with mcafee, just because its better in my opinion. And i'm not a labrat like Norton users are 
Posted by: Darky!
And as for a backup or an image of the drive... You want to spend 3 hours makeing an image of a 13gb hd with 180,000 files on it and almost filled to capacity, feel free. Mind you this is an FTP drive, everything needs to be saved, since theres no key files on the drive. I wound up doing serveral formats, and rebuilding it piece by piece, re downloading things, and restoreing backups of the files that didn't get infected. A whoping 3gb didn't get infected! whohoo! All stuff noone ever looked at. I saved cowboybebop, and blood, those are the only two files that were acctually worth saving of those that didn't get infected. Oh well. Life moves on.
Posted by: Outlaw
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Originally posted by Darky!
Norton is evil. Sheer evil.
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McAfee is evil too, it used to find a virus on every floppy I put in my comp, when I would scan it again it was gone but when I took the disk out and put it in again it would find the virus again too. It didn't tell the name of it too, probably because it wasn't there.
I'm a labrat now
I update it everyday, it's not much work to press an update button once a day.
Posted by: Darky!
Thats because you hadn't either
A) Installed the patch for your version of mcafee or
B.) Hadn't downloaded an updated .dat file for mcafee
Personally, norton does this to my other computer all the time,it constantly finddds a NYB virus. But yet theres nothing there. Its simply because norton is evil.
Mcafee isn't as evil as norton... Besides the fact its simpler and not as stuffy as norton =P
Posted by: one
Ok norton vs mcafee, what others are out there? I've heard Panda is good.
Posted by: Outlaw
Norman (Thunderbyte), I heard the newest version makes WinXP unable to boot, dunno if it's true though.
Kaspersky, I tried it but it slowed down my pc too much, just like McAfee.
And Darky, I think I had the latest version at that time (5.21?) and the latest virus definition files so I don't know what was wrong with it. Doesn't really matter anymore either, I got norton now and I'm happy with it
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