Quote - Well, this virus ws no rumor. It trashed 4 0f my PCs!

Yes, you already said.

As I noted some are hoaxes and rumours. No need to take it personally. All I'm doing is countering a statement that "viruses are not rumours", when, in fact, some are.

bonni

Everyone, I will definitely go through all of the posts here and read each one, however, I wanted to tell you I have been fighting the W32 Polip virus for 4 weeks now. 

This is so weird.  I have an original piece of software that is about 5 years old.  I was going to install it to make custom graduation invitations for my son.

That executable file started a ball rolling that isn't stopping on 4 external hard drives.  I am going to have to re-download EVERYTHING I have ever purchased from DAZ3d because everything comes in exe form. 

It has been a rough going time. Whom ever made this virus should be horse whipped. 

Completely reformatting my hard drive, staying in "Safe Mode" after to get rid of these little varmits.

I cannot even get Poser loaded again.  But, not to fret.  I WILL get rid of this thing, one exe at a time.

Good luck to all who were subject to such a horrible person's meanness!!!

Jan

Everyone, I will definitely go through all of the posts here and read each one, however, I wanted to tell you I have been fighting the W32 Polip virus for 4 weeks now. 

This is so weird.  I have an original piece of software that is about 5 years old.  I was going to install it to make custom graduation invitations for my son.

That executable file started a ball rolling that isn't stopping on 4 external hard drives.  I am going to have to re-download EVERYTHING I have ever purchased from DAZ3d because everything comes in exe form. 

It has been a rough going time. Whom ever made this virus should be horse whipped. 

Completely reformatting my hard drive, staying in "Safe Mode" after to get rid of these little varmits.

I cannot even get Poser loaded again.  But, not to fret.  I WILL get rid of this thing, one exe at a time.

Good luck to all who were subject to such a horrible person's meanness!!!

Jan

Everyone, I will definitely go through all of the posts here and read each one, however, I wanted to tell you I have been fighting the W32 Polip virus for 4 weeks now. 

This is so weird.  I have an original piece of software that is about 5 years old.  I was going to install it to make custom graduation invitations for my son.

That executable file started a ball rolling that isn't stopping on 4 external hard drives.  I am going to have to re-download EVERYTHING I have ever purchased from DAZ3d because everything comes in exe form. 

It has been a rough going time. Whom ever made this virus should be horse whipped. 

Completely reformatting my hard drive, staying in "Safe Mode" after to get rid of these little varmits.

I cannot even get Poser loaded again.  But, not to fret.  I WILL get rid of this thing, one exe at a time.

Good luck to all who were subject to such a horrible person's meanness!!!

Jan

Quote - Everyone, I will definitely go through all of the posts here and read each one, however, I wanted to tell you I have been fighting the W32 Polip virus for 4 weeks now. 

This is so weird.  I have an original piece of software that is about 5 years old.  I was going to install it to make custom graduation invitations for my son.

That executable file started a ball rolling that isn't stopping on 4 external hard drives.  I am going to have to re-download EVERYTHING I have ever purchased from DAZ3d because everything comes in exe form. 

It has been a rough going time. Whom ever made this virus should be horse whipped. 

Completely reformatting my hard drive, staying in "Safe Mode" after to get rid of these little varmits.

I cannot even get Poser loaded again.  But, not to fret.  I WILL get rid of this thing, one exe at a time.

Good luck to all who were subject to such a horrible person's meanness!!!

Jan

 

You should be able to repair all the infected files without losing anything if you use cureit mentioned in an earlier post, or is it already too late for your daz files?

Lucifer The Dark, wow...triple post...sorry about that, anyway, I am running AVG Free now and it is finding polip in my external drive restore files, which Norton didn't do.  Yes, I am going to have to ask DAZ3d to let me download EVERYTHING again.  Norton locked up so many of my other files, I am going to have to get everything I have purchased since 9/05 and re-download......just a mess.....I am going to download cureit when I get home from work and let that do it's thing, as well.

I think forums like this are necessary because, I come here, I see you guys here, you don't know me, but I am not afraid to ask you questions.  We use the same type of programs.  Shoot, if you google this, you have to join a website with people you don't know, people that don't know anything about what sort of executables you might have, etc.

I consider Renderosity people my friends, people who know what I am talking about....even if you don't want to be, we have a love of digital art and that is a bond.

I consider all of the other places I go for my Poser passion/obession home, as well.

If I irritate someone asking about a virus on one of my Poser home websites, there are a hundred people who are not irritated and will help me.

You guys rock...and even the people mad about the forum rock, too...

I am going to work...will NOT hit post 3 times...

I hope I can actually install Poser tomorrow and use it after 4 weeks of not being able to.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you!!!

I recommend to those dealing with the virus to run VARIOUS anti-vi programs on their computer. Even if you have to install and un-install each one. Cureit is NOT going to work for everyone. In fact, the program made my computer go nuts. NO, this was not the virus, as I had not bluescreened before the install of Cureit, and I didn't bluescreen after I uninstalled it. I got a run thru with it once, and it told me where the problems were, but when I tried to cure...got the blue screen of death. Instead, I am running bitDefender 9 now and have had no problems. Luckily I only had 13 exes infected [6 Daz] and NO windows systems.

And I am pretty sure that Cureit [for those it does work for] gave me the option to cure infected files found in sys restore....?

Hi: Daz will NOT just reset all your purchases. I asked. But they only charge $35.00 US to burn all your purchases to CD. Cheaper than anyone else. RR quoted me $400., but I have over 1000 purchases here, LOL! Dr. Web's cureit disables the .exe files from working, but does NOT remove the Pollip virus. AVG detects the virus but can't cure it. It really depends how far the virus has spread in your PC. I had four PCs with multiple internal and external drives hit. One desktop and my laptop were cured with Stinger from McAffee (free), but only after Cure it wrecked all my Daz files. My main PC is entired destroyed, including my Windows XP. I will have to reformat all drives. My other desktop had to be reformated and everything resinstalled. Nothing would fix it. My external drive also has to be wiped clean. Meanwhile, I have one desktop fixed and have asked for resets from everyone. The only store that did not answer my emaiil was Bbay. It's just a pain to have to redownload everything. I'm glad Daz only charged me $35 to burn my purchases. Now I will not have to worry about viruses on the CD, hopefully.

Save always your purchases and downloads in CDs or DVDs.

It wasn't the Win32polipos that got mine.

cureit found nothing, MacAfee found two virus and 6 trojans.
The virus were deleted and 5 trojans deleted but one wouldn't clean or delete with anything. That trojan was the backdoor thingy.
 I used cureit, MacAfee, Norton online and my server's antivirus thing. but that trojan sat on the volume of my slave drive. Had to do a factory restore.

I lost my external drive and all it's contents. All that shows when it's connected is an unformatted drive.

I had RR and Daz rest all my downloads and I've got them on CDs now.

The loss still hurts as I had built up an extensive texture library for my work includung photos from 3dsk. Now I have to downlaod all those again as well and rebyuild my working library.
From now on everything goes to CD and DVD for backup nightly.
And maybe now within the next few days I can start re-doing my three character sets for the MP.
And life goes on. :)

After redownloading, I am going to burn it all to CDs. I lost all my photos of last summer's trip to Europe - about 800 pics. That really hurts!

Two stores - 2 different brands of CD. Test both copies of the backups on a 2nd machine.

One set in the house ,  the other elsewhere. Date the discs and remaster every 2 years and use the old ones as working copys.

Also copy really important stuff like insurance policy numbers,  scans of ID etc, system discs onto disc and keep  in a CD carry case near the front door. (Obviously be carefull and keep the location to yourself) somwhere you can grab and literally run with.  

Then all you need after a disaster is a phone computer and a cup of tea and you're sorted :)

Paranoid ? Yep - but bloody effective if theres ever a fire or other data damaging event.

BTW = is it actually confirmed that Daz exectaubles (legal ones of course) HAVE this nasty ? 

ahh. viruses. yeah . annoying things:(  but i got myself  a whole bunch of ati viral programes and malware ones:)  like avira, its a good one. and  rising antivirus. its fast! .plus more. and this nifty anti spyware proggie. wow. it cleans out a whole bunch of things! .

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besides. to loose 200gb of poser,bryce and vue thins, not good at all. not to mention pics of my adorable kids... from when they were  babies:(  so im  gonna back up all!