On 6/5/06, Patrick Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe that the ponoas.exe is some sort of rootkit although searching on
google for this file name returns nothing. Also searching
mwvsta.exereturns nothing. At this point I have removed these files
from the system
and registry but am weary that the server will get hit again. Has anyone
had an experience with the following file or have any idea what rookkit of
virus they are associated with?
I don't know about the ponoas.exe or msvsta.exe, but the rundll16.exe
is used in a few different worms/backdoors ... though not in
conjuction with the other two files that I can tell.
I'm fairly new to the security side of the IT house, so this is to be
taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, but presuming the symptoms of
known malware that uses rundll16.exe are not present (and that there
is a relationship between the mysterious processes and the rundll16
process) it may be that you have become infected with a new variant
(or a known one and the persons using it have loaded a new type of
malware onto the host) ...
either case isn't likely to be much fun to deal with i'm afraid =/
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