Aggressive Computer Virius - Public Service Annoucement
Well we can thank the brilliant and nice folks in asia for generating a virus that most systems wont recognize.
It's in all sorts of places. I suspected I picked it up either from a sewing site or deviant art.
The name of this bastard is Rootkit.Win32.Tdss.ai and it will nicely install and populate itself here WINDOWS\systemm32\drivers\atapi.sys and did so 274 times in 8 hours. Zone alarm could detect it but could nto get rid of it.
The nice geeks at kaperski say freeware ComboFix is the only thing to get rid of it. It works. So if you got it, and are suffing because you can't get rid of it, here is a solution.
I personally beleive in Posse Justice for hackers like this. They rob me of my life, and I will never get that time back. If we catch them we should be allowed to throw them into a stadium with all the users they victimized. I bet their body would not last beyond a minute. I want to ask them why, and as they die, miserable and fearful, if they thought is was worth it. Maybe out little eastern hacker will have got his virus on the wrong PTB's computer, and we won't be hearing from them anymore. (my hope and dream ATM) Yes, why, I am vindictive this way. Especially when I am in the middle of doing an exchange project. (back ups are my friend-no worries, but I just lost a day)
It's in all sorts of places. I suspected I picked it up either from a sewing site or deviant art.
The name of this bastard is Rootkit.Win32.Tdss.ai and it will nicely install and populate itself here WINDOWS\systemm32\drivers\atapi.sys and did so 274 times in 8 hours. Zone alarm could detect it but could nto get rid of it.
The nice geeks at kaperski say freeware ComboFix is the only thing to get rid of it. It works. So if you got it, and are suffing because you can't get rid of it, here is a solution.
I personally beleive in Posse Justice for hackers like this. They rob me of my life, and I will never get that time back. If we catch them we should be allowed to throw them into a stadium with all the users they victimized. I bet their body would not last beyond a minute. I want to ask them why, and as they die, miserable and fearful, if they thought is was worth it. Maybe out little eastern hacker will have got his virus on the wrong PTB's computer, and we won't be hearing from them anymore. (my hope and dream ATM) Yes, why, I am vindictive this way. Especially when I am in the middle of doing an exchange project. (back ups are my friend-no worries, but I just lost a day)