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i HAVE AVG FREE VERSION
aND HAVE FOUND OUT i HAVE THE sO big VIRUS
dOES ANYONE KNOW IF AVG HAS A FIX FOR IT?
lou ledda
Dont know about AVG, but know Norton can. Here is a little info on the virus that might be of intrest to other readers.
August 20, 2003The entire Internet is inundated by a cataclysm of mass E-mails triggered by the "worm" W32.SoBig.f@MM Virus
W32.SoBig.f@MM Virus aka SoBig.f or simply So Big virus, a mass e-mail worm that attempts to download files from the Internet, is spreading quickly around the world.
Sobig.F has infected tens of thousands of Windows-based computers.
Even computers that have great Anti-Virus Protection are inundated by thousands of e-mails an hour from other infected computers. This virus has slowed down email servers with excessive traffic. It has brought some corporate e-mail systems to a standstill!.... Deleting e-mails is a Full time job!
SoBig.f arrives in e-mail and includes a variety of subject lines, including
Thank you!
Your details
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your applicationIn its body text you will find:
See the attached file for details
Please see the attached file for details.The infected files attached to Sobig.F include:
application.pif
details.pif
document_9446.pif
document_all.pif
movie0045.pif
thank_you.pif
your_details.pif
your_document.pif
wicked_scr.scr
The "From" and "To" addresses are collected from infected PCs, from files ending with the extensions .dbx, .eml, .htm, .html, .txt, and .wab.
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Here's the link for the Symantec Removal Tool for that virus.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.removal.tool.html
Tufenuf
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Blaster is the one that did not affect Windows 98.
SoBig does. And AVG will take care of it.
Good Luck
Smitty
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I have AVG, which indicates that I do not have any viruses or worms, however, my yahoo email account, specifically my bulk mail/spam file, is being constantly blasted with huge emails from everywhere. Does that mean I do have the virus? If not, is there anyway to stop all this Sh__ from coming into my yahoo account. Yahoo has been no help at all. Thanks!
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i run win98 2ed and found i had "picked up" the -Thank you! email and had movie0045.pif in my systems- and I didn't even open the mail ? i run win 98 2ed. OS, Sbcglobal DSL, ( yahoo email, too) and run Both Norton system works -anti virus and firewall ALL the time
i followed all the instructions with the removeal tool. and it says its gone but my PC still acts wierd....
On top of the above situation, ..... Explorer has been "not responding " every day now for almosr 2 weeks.( on aveage of 2 out 5 attempts to change web pages.) have been getting this Windows Update Feedback (ERROR 0x800A138F) message for many days now and can't get thru to find what the problem seems to be. and when i've looked for help- no one has heard of this situation-does anyone here have suggestions?? any inpu is most appreciated, thank you.
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Regarding the error message above (0x800a138F)i had this same message when i tried to do an update at home the other day, i found a link to e-mail Microsoft and a nice person e-mailed me back with a detailed list of things to check, try finding the link on the site, i will have a look for the e-mail when i get home tonight and post it on here tomorrow.
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Sorry, its later than expected, I have been busy!
Try this, this is what I did and it worked for me (although I run XPhome)
1. Close all instances of Internet Explorer.
NOTE: While registering each dll file you will get a "succeeded message". Incase if you encounter any error message, kindly let me know the exact error message. Also make sure that the command is correctly written.
2. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 VBSCRIPT.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
3. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 MSHTML.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
4. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 MSJAVA.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
5. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 JSCRIPT.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
6. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 MSXML.DLL in " (w/o quotes) the Open box and click OK.
7. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 SHDOCVW.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
8. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 ACTXPRXY.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
9. Click Start and Run, type " Regsvr32 URLMON.DLL " (w/o quotes) in the Open box and click OK.
10. Now try accessing Windows Update site again and check whether your issue is resolved or not.
This issue can also occur if you are using an OKI printer or LynX soundcard. The driver of some devices make changes in the system registry which creates this error while accessing Windows Update site.
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in relation to the msinfo.exe messages we kept seeing due to the virus mentioned above...
what is the command i need to type into DOS to send my computer reg settings back a few days, etc? Anyone know?
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