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Virus? Worm?
Posted by Antigua2001@compuserve.de on August 19th, 2004


Hello,

i have here about 450 Computers all with Symantec Antivirus.
But on one a process kills the hosts-file (windows\system32\drivers\etc)
Normally the hosts-file i copied by a login-script.
The script works an correctly copies the file but after one min. the
file is deleted.
I scanned the DH - without any result
If i copy the host-file manually it also get erased.
Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks

Dirk

Posted by David H. Lipman on August 21st, 2004


It is most likely SpyWare or Adware or some other malware that is not a virus.

Use appropriate anti malware software such as AdAware by Lavasoft.

Dave



<Antigua2001@compuserve.de> wrote in message news:cg25k9$2ru$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
| Hello,
|
| i have here about 450 Computers all with Symantec Antivirus.
| But on one a process kills the hosts-file (windows\system32\drivers\etc)
| Normally the hosts-file i copied by a login-script.
| The script works an correctly copies the file but after one min. the
| file is deleted.
| I scanned the DH - without any result
| If i copy the host-file manually it also get erased.
| Does anyone have an idea?
|
| Thanks
|
| Dirk


Posted by Richard S. Westmoreland on August 24th, 2004


<Antigua2001@compuserve.de> wrote in message
news:cg25k9$2ru$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
Does that machine have Spybot Search and Destroy running on it, or any other
anti-spyware/adware products?

--
Richard S. Westmoreland
http://www.antisource.com




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