If you see this thread anywhere, don't click the link. I have had a report of the page delivering viruses to the viewer's computer. I'm checking into this now.

Opps :( Russell and I already clicked the link :(

I put instructions on how to eradicate the virus, if necessary, in the warning thread in OT. I'll copy and IM them to you, too.

Thanks Michelah. Is this not something that regular Norton Antivirus cannot then pick out and clean up?

I don't know, honestly. Audre posted the instructions... apparently the problem is that it's self perpetuating- you think it's killed, then a month later, it's back.

Hrm... :(

Does this apply to the original thread, too?

Sorry, that was a not-quite-awake, knee-jerk reaction. I can't recall if the original thread had a link in it or not.

Are you talking about the thread a Death in the Family started by Ronknights? If so does opening the thread here on renderosity open the virus or do you have to click the link? I read the thread the other day but didnt see the link.

No spiritbro- it's not the one by ronknights- it was posted by onyxx. in ot theres a thread on it, and two threads under micheleh's thread about it, you will see 2 deleted threads- those were the infected ones

I'm going to repost his info without the link, while the server is cleaned up. It was a legitimate communication of a tradgedy, and deserving of our sympathies.

The Nimda virus is a real pain to eradicate... but I got it! :) but the problem with this virus is that you can easily get it through surfing... I never ran a virus scanner, but definitly do now... have had to do a bunch of reinstalling though... but the good thing, is that I regained a bunch of space by deleting apps that I havent used for years... D

If you got Nimda viruses then go to the www.symantec.com site and download the Nimda removal tool from there. The Nimda is really a nuissance. I got it from someone while my computer is connected to the internet but I had neither a browser open nor is my email installed on that machine. My antivirus program did recognized the virus but because it fills the hard drive with itself the anti viral program was constantly killing new created viruses. The only real fix is to get the above program and then disconnect from the internet and run the removal tool. Seravajan

That is one of the newer things I'm really beginning to dislike... Scripts having priveleages of running programs on my computer. Soooo many innovations, so much trouble. A while back (before Nimda was recognized, yes, before) I saw many, and I do mean many, default.ida, cmd.exe, etc requests in my Linux, Apache logs. My server served my 404 page many times eating up 300MB in 1 day alone. As a result I created files it looked for with blank files of the same name. Instead of serving up 1000's of 404's is served up 1000's of blank files (0 bytes) and found it saved me alot of bandwidth trouble. Ever since I started putting those blank files in my root, it has saved me literally gigs of bandwidth a month (except when it does this crap "../../". I also have a blank page for the 400 bad request errors. Sometimes it is good just to create a blank file if you get alot of 404's on a specific request, cause most likely, a blank file is smaller than your custom 404's which can save in bandwidth. ;) Just my 2 cents about Nimda.

Some hints on nimda, after running norton AV or remove utility. Do the following search your HD for *.emf files. The only place you should see them is in your MS shared directory And MS office directories, and there is a couple of templates with that extension. Any of these file found in other directories should be deleted. Second search your temorary internet file folders for *.vbs files also delete any of these.

visual basic script capabilities in internet browsers... bad bad idea...

For those of you that want a good free virus checker go to grisoft.com They update it regularly (free updates too)and it has save my hard drive fom these viruses several times.