[OT] Re: Sick windows machine

[NoOp]

On 03/24/2009 05:54 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
 JeffM wrote:
 Lester Caine wrote:
 [...]It's only the one machine that is NOT seeing these sites.
 Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com
 either so I can't run windows update :(
 

Further to my other post in this thread - my guess is that it's been
infected with the 'Confiker' worm which does exactly that: blocks access
to updates  AV sites. If you've not burned a copy of the
BitDefender/Knoppix CD that I mentioned, you can download other tools
for this from here:
http://www.bdtools.net/

There are others if you google/yahoo/whatever for 'confiker'. Or:
confiker +AVofyourchoice


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OT: Re: Sick windows machine

[Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo]

JeffM wrote:


2) Wipe the drive clean (*NOT *just* a FORMAT
  --FDISK the partition to get any boot sector viruses).
3) Fresh install of Windoze and apps.


in all the years I've had windows of various sorts, 
I've never had to resort to that type of tactic.


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