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Windows Update Virus (?)
Name: b92mj Date: July 23, 2005 at 18:27:43 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Professional CPU/Ram: Various
Comment:
At work several of our machines have an icon that recently appeared that looks similar (but not identical) to the windows update icon. If you mouse over the icon the balloon says "Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to download these updates." Does anyone know what this is?
Name: Rambler Date: July 24, 2005 at 03:11:10 Pacific
Reply:
It's very likely to be a variant of a backdoor trojan. I just connected an unfirewalled PC to the 'net and was infected in around 5 mins. Look for a task named wininit.exe, running from WINNT\SYSTEM32, with an entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
It may have disabled DCOM, preventing network drives from being accessed - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole - check for EnableDCOM set to "N" and reset it to "Y"
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Response Number 2
Name: bigbropaulo Date: July 25, 2005 at 22:19:28 Pacific
Reply:
I have the same problem with the icon and have had a bit of a sniff around re Rambler's suggestions to no avail. Now..the task manager won't open...I suspect it is related. searched for wininit and nothing untoward in the run folder in reg
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