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Actually, SpyBot has been known (personal experience and other people I
have talked to) to hose systems running Windows 2000 with SP3 and SP4 -
you are looking at a bare metal rebuild.

Sent email and never got a reply.

Do IT for a living and was a MSFT employee for five years (don't hold
that against me please) :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Metzger, Michael A [mailto:MAMETZGER@...]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:34 AM
To: MOTM List; synth DIY
Subject: RE: [motm] OT: important PC spying / hacking


The best application we've found for malware like that is Spybot Search
& Destroy. It seems to catch some files that Ad-Aware misses. Note that
these apps are designed to identify and clean data miners, pop ups, etc
- not viruses. http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
After installing it make sure to download the updates. Then run it and
you should be clean. It's still free but I see that they are now asking
for donations. It's a great tool.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:12 AM
To: MOTM List; synth DIY
Subject: [motm] OT: important PC spying / hacking


I hate "virus warning" e-mails, because so many of them in the last have
been a hoax. However, I recently discovered something on my PC that I
wanted to share with my "friends" here on this list. I am on a dial up
connection, so data traffic is fairly obvious. I started noticing a
large amount of data transfer to and from my PC when there should have
been none.

So, I started looking for suspicious executable files and found the
offender. It started in my C:\windows directory as a file called
"system.exe". The file was dated 4/1/04 (April fools day). Here is
some info on this nasty piece of spyware that was copying files from my
machine.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojtofgerb.html

Larry Hendry







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