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RE: Off Topic: VIRUS FOUND



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Allen,Bill,Neo et all,

Thanks a bunch for your help. The symantecpages are great...
Everything seems to be up and running smoothly now.
Since I don't use outlookexpress but eudora, I still wonder where it came
from.

Wishing you supertrading,
Frans


At 08:40 30-6-2001 -0400, you wrote:
>SARC Write-up - VBS.Haptime.B@xx
>VBS.Haptime.B@xx is a Visual Basic Script (VBS) worm. It infects .htm,
>.html, .vbs, .asp, and .htt files. It replicates using MAPI objects to
>spread itself as an attachment. ...
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.haptime.b@xxxxxxx - 24.1KB -
>United States  78%
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>
>neo
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frans Derksen
>Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 3:42 AM
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Off Topic: VIRUS FOUND
>
>
>
>Hi Gang,
>
>This morning on starting up my Pc, the F-Prot anti-virus program i use on
>startup told me it found a virus called VBS/Haptime.A    (Could not delete
>the file)
>
>I immediately ran a F-Prot scan with the option: Automatically disinfect.
>
>It deleted 28 files as these were already destroyed by the virus and thus
>could not be disinfected anymore.
>
>These files were all located in C:\Windows\web.
>Some examples: C:\Windows\web\offline.htm
>	                        \controlp.htt
>                              \dialup.htt
>                              \sysroot.htt
>
>The question is How do I locate and delete the virus itself ??
>
>And where does this virus come from ???
>
>My logic would be 1) delete the virus
>		       2) delete the infected files
>		       3)reinstall/putback these files from the Win-cd-Rom
>
>But how can I be sure the virus is gone ?
>
>I did a search for VBS/Haptime.A (before the F-prot scan) but nothing was
>found.
>
>Anybody ??
>
>Rgds.
>Frans
>
>