Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-08 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
to be as aggressive... Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:54 PM Subject: Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus W32.Mocbot.A was the first one but when I ran the CA

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-08 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Only defense here really is to reformat - move data to new server and start afresh. Experience tells you that as soon as a machine gets infected it needs to be reformatted; You just don't know how many rootkits you may have etc... This e-mail is from Reed

RE: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-07 Thread Munson, Jacob
Good point. I looked up the virus he posted, and it takes advantage of a hole MS patched with the September or October patch Teusday (I can't remember which). It's a worm that doesn't require any user intervention to spread, but I wasn't able to find how it does spread...scanning IPs for an open

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I thought I was but I discovered something interesting about the attack. It took a number of files in the dllcache directory (usually hidden) and set their permissions so that no one 'owned' them. This prevented the automatic updates from going on and left me vulnerable. Even when I tried to do

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Dinowitz
to be as aggressive... Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:54 PM Subject: Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus W32.Mocbot.A was the first one but when I ran the CA anti-viral

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-05 Thread James Holmes
Were you definitely up-to-date with patching? These worms exploit security holes in Windows. On 11/6/05, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just a bit worried how they got on as the machine is secure and I never had any problems in the past. This happened as soon as the hardware

RE: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Munson, Jacob
Sounds like its time for Linux. jk ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: (OT) server rebooting after virus The House of Fusion box picked up a virus somehow and even after I've

RE: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Mark A Kruger
MIchael, What virus did you find originally? -Mark -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: (OT) server rebooting after virus The House of Fusion box picked up a virus somehow and even after I've

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Dinowitz
W32.Mocbot.A was the first one but when I ran the CA anti-viral, it found (at different times) Win32.Rbot.DSV Win32.Esbot.M I've removed accounts from the drives that looked like they didn't belong, removed permissions on the drives that looked added, cleaned out everything I can think of and

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
If you could run HijackThis on it and send me the output, I'd be happy to help. Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:54 PM Subject: Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

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Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
PM Subject: Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus W32.Mocbot.A was the first one but when I ran the CA anti-viral, it found (at different times) Win32.Rbot.DSV Win32.Esbot.M I've removed accounts from the drives that looked like they didn't belong, removed permissions on the drives

Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus

2005-11-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
Definately. Email me offlist tomorrow... Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:09 PM Subject: Re: (OT) server rebooting after virus I appreciate the offer and will do so