Dana
>It was called Backdoor.optix.BI or optix.pro.
>
>It goes out and kills certain processes then alerts the hacker that your
>system has been compromised. It's damage depends on what the hacker
>does, which luckily for me wasn't much.
>
>I was dismayed that a program was able to defeat NAV's protection so
>easily though. It just shut it down and prevented it from ever
>running/installing again. Same with McAffee. It even blocked the web
>based McAfee virusscan.
>
>I downloaded AVG and I managed to isolate the fileserver and delete it.
>It was masquerading as msieexec16.exe . Got rid of that then went online
>to find what the trojan does and how it works and cleared out the
>relevant Registry keys.
>
>-Gel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> sobig.e??? I got this and didn't realize it until I realized anti-virus
>scan never finished. If you can get the name of it, there are tools out
>there for it.
>
>Dana
>
>
>
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>
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