New virus - warning from someone who got it

Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:57 pm by Stinger

Yup, that's me. The neighborhood virus watchdog got burned.

It's the W32.Beagle.AG@mm virus. Removal involves the use of a removal tool that unfortunately involved shutting off the restore of WinXP. Grrr. The removal tool has been around for a while. I received an email from Electricbrain and thinking it was okay to open...blammo. 76 viruses later I'm in the middle of getting rid of the nasty bugger.

Consider yourself forewarned. It's a brand new virus discovered July 19th 2004. I got nailed because my virus definitions were 4 days old. Go figure huh?

UPDATE: 4 instances found by the removal tool.

Rob "Stinger" Lordier
Creator of the original Privateer FAQ
3+ years here and still lovin' every minute!

Favorite saying - Life is a journey, not a destination

Edited by - Stinger on 7/20/2004 7:26:05 PM

Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:02 pm by Neo_Kuja

I received an email from Electricbrain and thinking it was okay to open...blammo

*Twacks Electricbrain*

Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:17 pm by warrior17

i know that feeling all to well, my dad said that at his job they been getting viruses. so what he do, start brining home all these little nick nake crap that was jokes and stuff. craped my tower out in the process of removeing all 32 of the little buggers.

Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:38 pm by Tawakalna

you mean you actually read EB's e-mails?

Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:25 pm by Esquilax

What have I told you people about opening emails from people you don't know!?!?! Oh, err, scratch that

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Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:40 pm by arton alpha

thats why my a-v scanner is set to check for updates daily, my e-mail carrier also has anti-virus on there servers so i think i'm covered i sugest setting your a-v to update daily to save future annoyances and you computer

Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:47 pm by Chips

*Sheepishly updates AVG*

Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:02 pm by Aceaz

*copies Chips*

Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:04 pm by freighter fighter

i update every 2 days or so when the new definitions are out.

Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:05 pm by Indy11

Taw must be proud.

Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:31 am by Esquilax

Well if you people wouldn't keep opening attachments and downloading rubbish off KAzaa... *Shakes head*

Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:38 am by Wizard

So EB is still alive

He should start posting here again. In a strange way, I miss him...

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Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:47 pm by arton alpha

i paid a good amount of money for my computer and i'm not going to have some fool coward mess it up, i may only have AVG protecting my system but for about six months i didn't have a scanner. (i know i was an idiot but i wasn't going to pay $39 to have it protected either

)

Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:23 pm by Esquilax

Bah, AVG... I know a few people who have had nothing but problems with it. *Glances at a particular TLR resident*

Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:29 pm by freighter fighter

esky, you know people who have problems with anything and everything

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