spinner opened this issue on May 15, 2005 ยท 28 posts
spinner posted Sun, 15 May 2005 at 10:18 AM
Attached Link: http://www.netlimiter.com/
I just spent most of the day cleaning up after a filthy little scriptkiddie attack. Norton 2005 didn't catch it, neither did the latest release of PC-Cillin from Trend. AdAware didnt catch it either but that may be due to my lack of updating it for a while. This is what happens, and how you clean it up: If you notice your bandwidth behaving extremely erratically, you may have this issue. With erratic I mean i.e a speedy connection one minute, and an extremely slow one the next. If this is combined with erratic system behaviour, i.e hangs and a CPU at 100% if you're not doing anything, you may have the issue I got, and here's how you clean it up: First thing you do if you see this, or notice something similar, is to grab a copy of NetLimiter. Install it, and disconnect from the net. Connect to the net, and run NetLimiter. Watch for two apps, called winole.exe and gta.exe Open Taskmanager, and shut both of them down. Disconnect Reboot Enter Safe mode (F8) and start in safe mode. Locate the files either by doing a search (F3) or by going to the winnt/system32 folder Delete them - Shift+Delete sends them straight to bit hell w/o passing through the recycle bin Reboot Connect to the net Start NetLimiter You should NOT see them there now. ~S, who's off to write a mail with vapour trails to Symantec - LiveUpdate should have caught this.