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Subject: New virus that can cause you to unknowingly flood the rosity servers

dboura opened this issue on May 08, 2002 ยท 8 posts


dboura posted Wed, 08 May 2002 at 6:58 PM

Heya all, Just informing you that there is a new Virus out as of May 1, 2002 that even Norton's has no acknowledgement of. Yesterday at around 11pm est I was seen logged into rosity 100 times. Then not even 2 hours later that had tripled causing my to be on the site with well over 290 connections. Audre notified me as did Sipapu. I also hear this is happening to others at least in a once a month timeframe. So I am setting forth a how to go about fixing this. Since Nortons doesn't seem to have this virus definition. you best bet would be to go to this url http://www.antivirus.com it is from the makers of PC-Cillin they have this virus definition. There they have an online virus scanner. It's called House Call. Run that virus scanner on your drives (usually the main C: drive would be ok as most virus files adhere themselves to that drive) If you come up with JS_NOCLOSE.E then very simply delete the infected file. Then reboot. If you have a different one, look it up on their definition list before rebooting. Some may write coding to IEXPLORER.EXE or explorer.exe which both are needed for windows to properly run the GUI interface. Rebooting in that essence would save the newly written coding. Some may also rewrite some registry files which could make Windows inoperable unless in safe mode and regedit is hell to go through if you haven't done it before. On their Virus Definitions you will see ways to fix the damage payload that a malicious or harmful virus would cause.