WORST EVER VIRUS (CNN announced) PLEASE DON'T SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply spreads by talking about it!! Whatever you do, do not read or talk about this devastating new virus!! On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Glen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey. > > Yall talked about this and now I’ve got one doing the same. > > Check the reg key and it was set to 1. > > Changed it to 0 and now taskmanager runs, but shutdown and logoff are > grayed out. > > This is when you do the 3 finger salute. > > Damg yall for talking about it. > > Caused it to spread, whatever “it” is. > > > > *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:00 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Can't run TaskManager > > > > Richard, > > > There was a thread last week about a fake antivirus that disabled task > manager. It apparently disabled it via a registry key: > > > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] > "DisableTaskMgr" > > Jeff > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a desktop machine doing something troubling... > > It's a Dell PWS-380, WinXP-Pro SP2. > In an remote desktop session, I was wanting to see if a specific process > was running, so I right-clicked the task bar and chose TaskManager. I got > the hour glass icon for about a second, then nothing - for quite a long > time. > > I went to the desk and logged in locally. Same thing. I did a "chkdsk /f" > command and rebooted. > > Logging back in (locally) I did see a gray icon for VIPRE Enterprise. Its > agent version and definitions were current. I initiated a deep scan. > (Hopefully, none of this is relevent, but VIPRE/SBamSvc was the process for > which I was originally hunting.) So far, VIPRE has not detected any malware > (yet!). > > I still cannot run Task Manager on this machine - either by right-clicking > the task bar and selecting it, or by Ctrl-Alt-Del and clicking the Task > Manager button. > > SO, I go to the machine and run "taskmgr.exe". To that I get a response - > the file is not there. > > Any ideas as to what could have whacked that file? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
