Wes Wilson wrote on 2013-10-02: > I was at my customer's site from 8/20-8/31/13. On 8/21, we discovered that all of the PRGs in \SBT7\AP\ were empty. Date and time stamps > > were untouched. We are converting an old VisionPoint, SBT7 program to Visual FoxPro. > > My customer blamed me since his network was behind a firewall and they had never had this problem before. More on that later. > > He insisted that I use there computers only which I did. When I left on 8/31, I took a complete backup. > > About a week after I left, my customer said his entire system was compromised by malware that attaches nasty code to autorun.inf. No question in his mind that we caused it. Turned out he had an antiquated firewall and workstations with no protecion at all. He found one workstation that was loaded with virus/malware programs. > > Last week they started testing again and we have since discovered that several, not all, of the PRGs and SPRs are again empty. This time > > in the AR folder. Have not looked at AP yet. In spite of the above, he is still convinced that we are responsible for the empty PRGs. > > No other system on my 2 laptops have had any such problems. That being said, I would certainly like to know more about what caused this. > > Has anyone heard of malware like this? > > Wes >
Wes, I have remoted into a client after they were having problems. All the EXE files in our programs folder were 2k. All the properties still existed, including the version numbers and dates. Since that type of problem is beyond our scope of support, we could only inform them of what we suspect. They admitted it had been in the shop because of a virus. We assisted them in getting the EXE's reinstalled and updated. We did not ask what virus it was. Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
