Netsky.D - F upgraded alert

[Leon]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.c@mm.html

my gran's PC had 3 lots of D variant on it - Symantec have a removal tool that I recommend you run ASAP as netkey has its own smtp engine and is a little bugger to get rid of... been crashing explorer on this PC all afternoon

hello from portsmouth btw :wave:

[manic_mechanic]

Hmmmmm...........................think I might have this :cry: :cry: :cry:
Got a couple of weird emails and now my PC is acting up. Typical, must have slipped in when my AVG was out of date due to server probs :annoyed: :annoyed: :down:

[Leon]

tis easily got rid of tho.
Just look at your connection status - netsky sends out more data that you can get in...

[manic_mechanic]

Thanks Leon - I ran the tool and apparently I don't have it. Something is the matter tho as I got an email from a company in India berating me for sending them spam and infected emails! :eek:
I'm busily updating my firewall and antivirus as we speak.......

[Leon]

what is your "sent bytes" doing? if it is rocketing up, you've got summat...

my grans was sending about 1k/second!!!!!

[seb]

If you install AVG on a machine with all of these netsky/mydoom viruses, will it automatically fix them, or do you need to do all the manual fixes too?

[seb]

Originally posted by manic_mechanic
Thanks Leon - I ran the tool and apparently I don't have it. Something is the matter tho as I got an email from a company in India berating me for sending them spam and infected emails! :eek:
I'm busily updating my firewall and antivirus as we speak.......

That's part of the virus. It just means someone with your email address has the virus - it'll have found your email and be sending out "spoof" emails to other people that appear to come from you.

I get about 20 of these a day, I must know a right bunch of numpties :P

[Leon]

Originally posted by seb
If you install AVG on a machine with all of these netsky/mydoom viruses, will it automatically fix them, or do you need to do all the manual fixes too?

it will find and fix if you've got the latest updates.
but to be sure, i always run the symantec tool too. if you're fixing summat, you may as well fix it 100% confidently...

[mattpayne]

just checked my logs... NAV corporate has been collecting and quarantining about adozen attacks on my network... :mad:

luckily nothing live on the machine... but a sweaty moment none the less!

[Leon]

Originally posted by Skyline_Matt
just checked my logs... NAV corporate has been collecting and quarantining about adozen attacks on my network... :mad:

luckily nothing live on the machine... but a sweaty moment none the less!

talking of sweaty moments... got to my grans and explorer was going down like a ho on a punter. then there was a windows exception while windows was rebooting :eek:

[manic_mechanic]

Originally posted by Leon
explorer was going down like a ho on a punter

What an image!














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