Do we NEED to reinstall after a Nimda infection like Symantec advises?

2001-09-25 Thread Howie Pince
Hey, Was victum of waiting on virus defs from Symantec and 3 servers got infected. They have been cleaned, and the whole network scanned, as well as having Symantec's Nimda removal tool Should say PREMISSIONS REMOVAL TOOL IN 20pt RED FONT as it wipes out all your share permissions!! ran

RE: Do we NEED to reinstall after a Nimda infection like Symantec advises?

2001-09-25 Thread John McCullough
See http://www.cert.org/ which recommends a complete clean. The reason for this, I believe, is not because of Nimda, but because of one of the vulnerabilities which it exploits - i.e. the backdoor left by code-red and others. If you have had such a backdoor for even a short time, someone can

Re: Do we NEED to reinstall after a Nimda infection like Symantec advises?

2001-09-25 Thread Dan_Rembolt
when you reinstall and have a nice clean system, make a ghost image for use 'next time'. Howie Pince