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Virus or software incompatibility???
Hey:
Last weekend, all of my .jpg and .mp3 files had been converted to (unrecoverable) .VBS files (12k). I thought my son may have downloaded and installed some software that changes file associations and somehow trashed them all in the process to a 12k file. However, all 4 of the computers on my home network have the same problem as I booted each of them up and looked at my jpg files in windows explorer. This now sounds like a virus to me.
Anybody familiar with this or heard of anything similar???
Keith
Last weekend, all of my .jpg and .mp3 files had been converted to (unrecoverable) .VBS files (12k). I thought my son may have downloaded and installed some software that changes file associations and somehow trashed them all in the process to a 12k file. However, all 4 of the computers on my home network have the same problem as I booted each of them up and looked at my jpg files in windows explorer. This now sounds like a virus to me.
Anybody familiar with this or heard of anything similar???
Keith
Dan Manley
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Posted September 18th, 2001 00:00
Actually, GB's advice is pretty much on-the-money. This sounds very much like the VBS/Lovelet-CM virus. You can find out more, here:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/vbsloveletcm.html
DanSteve Anderson
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Posted September 18th, 2001 15:00
Hi,
Go to McAfee for description of what they recommend that you do to protect your systems from attach from script worms--it's at the bottom of the page.
Did you consider that your son opened the attachment and ignored the warning message.
Steve
Rolling Thunder
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Posted September 18th, 2001 18:00
sktn77a,
I can assure you Norton will catch this specific virus. I believe Steve Anderson is correct, someone ignored the warning.
Goonboy
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Posted September 17th, 2001 16:00