RE: serious network down...readme.eml??

[Terry Manolakos]

Title: serious network down...readme.eml??

they're files generated by readme.exe ; it generated over 2300 readme.eml files that had to be deleted....   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: serious network down...readme.eml?? Stupid Ev Question #327: eml files can be executed?   Thanks,   Evan   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: serious network down...readme.eml??   1    Unplug servers form network. 2    use ERD to recover. 3    send users home. 4    clean clients. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Manolakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: serious network down...readme.eml?? My network is slammed with some uknown virus of some sort.....Both my NT 4.0 servers running MS-Exchange 6.5 have about 2300 alien files which were deleted....a "readme.eml" is being executed by all users somehow automtically and its infecting all my NT domain.   I can not Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log into any of the servers.....the display shows "initialization of the dynamic link library C:\WINNT\system32\USER32.dll failed. The process is terminating abnormally"  OKaying this results in no effects....all servers have this displayed onscreen.  For the ones that have admin already logged in, Services (control panel, settings) can not be accessed!  "access to the specified device, path, or file is denied"....it seems this virus has locked onto this element.  PDC is running Exchange (I know, never put'em together...but we're still cleaning up after previous SysAdmins here), and this has gone bezerk as well, with the same message onscreen.  Norton/Symantec doesn't recognize "readme.eml"....who out there can shine a flashlite in this dark mess?  thanks in advance. Terry  http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm