I am posting this to alert fellow users to the Win32.Polipos.  A fellow user alerted Chat earlier and gave us these 2 links. http://info.drweb.com/show/2815/en & http://download.drweb.com/drweb+cureit/.  He had all of his DAZ exe's infected by this virus.  It has infected 2 others user of my personal acquaintence.  One of them had Poser infected.  I checked just in case and am not.

Thanks.

Omfg...I had this virus like...destroy my computer a few days ago..it's finally back up and running, but it's just...it was the worst virus I've ever come in contact with...I'm a bit confused...

where did it come from??

The replies in this thread may have some of the answers you are looking for.

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2668941

It is in the Hardware / Technical Forum.

I posted this over in Poser forum.  I am seeing some are forgetting to disable System Restore and accidently re-infecting themselves.  I hope this helps.  :m_peace:

Posted Thu, May 4, 2006 11:19 pm
 

Quote - "How do you purge system restore?"

1. Start button
2. All Programs
3. Accessories
4. System Tools
5. System Restore and follow directions

• Or right click My Computer Icon
• System Restore tab
• Fill/check 'Turn off System Restore on all drives
• Click OK

Do not forget to Re-enable system restore once the computer is clean and safe.

I had this exact same virus a few weeks ago.
At that time I was using Avira Antivirus as my virus-program, wich it infected aswell.
And I lost half of my daz-studio downloads and exe programs.

• I got the same virus again yesterday from dc++ when I tried to download a poser-tutorial from a user.
   Glad I bought myself F-secure 2006. As the programs detects the virus, and deletes it. :)

OMG!...This 32worm just destroyed my new Sony VAIO. The first thing it took out was my norton antivirus, then it took out my system restore so I could not go back to a point before it came in. I save all my Daz/poser .exes on disc and when I put a disk in and opened it, I could sit there and watch it crawl from one file to another. Trying to stop it, I could not keep up with the rate at which it was destroying. It would not let me eject the disk or shut down the computer, so I had no choice but to unplug it before it did too much damage....too late. In a matter of two or three minutes,it destroyed every program in my pooter...not just Daz/poser .exes,but many others as well. I am still finding disks with it on there. I can pinpoint about where I got it though if it helps anyone....I was surfing around from some links I got from the posergirls site links page that are all Japanese. I had heard that Japanese sites are famous for viruses and so I was being cautious. I came to a page where there was a large black square with some japanese writing and a toon graphic of a kitty cat. I do not read japanese so I don't know what it was saying but I felt like it was a redirect page or a 404 error page or something like that.My Norton poped up saying it was the Polip and quarenteened it. I deleted it but obviously it did not go away because two days later is when I was wiped out. The wipeout did not occur until I updated the micro Defs in my Norton...immediately after that is when The destruction started and two minutes later I was wipedout. I had to do a complete stripdown,format,and rebuild. I use Windows Media Edition on this computer...but I use Windows 98SE on my computer at work....WHICH IT ALSO DESTROYED!!!!!! because I have a cd disk I use to transfer my work between home and work. It rode in on that disk and got into THAT computer as well. It has been a nightmare for me and I can only say...whoever you are that created this worm....SHAME,SHAME,SHAME!!!...God will get you for it and all the innocent people you hurt with it. You are a worthless P.O.S.(pardon my Japanese!)...anyway thanks for the link to a possible fix for it...I will get it. YOU...are an angel!

music2u4u
You are most welcome.

  I am sorry to hear this happened to you.  Most AV companies have been slow on recognizing this virus as a threat to the whole internet community. 

I hope this helps.  If you can download onto a flashdrive [ramstick usb] that may be a infection by pass.  Have not tried that, someone else mentioned it on another site.

Good luck,

VikingLady