Recent content by ghost123uk

Is good general advice, but this thing does not come from "certain" sites (or at least I am 99% sure of that "fact") From what I can see from on here (and elsewhere) it is like the "Blaster" virus in so much as it is just "floating" around the net looking for PC's to infect. I (we) don't think...

I did - and they said they are not !! Lets just hope some black hat doesn't use the same invasion technique to write a nastier and destructive type threat !! Mind you if that happened someone WOULD fix it like they did with Blaster in 2003 and Sasser in 2004. JB - N.W. - UK.... If at first...

Yes we have seen that situation often. It puzzles me that the virus writers write code that prevents a machine from booting when nowadays they are not vandals, they are after our customers money ! Re protecting registry keys, I wonder if registry protection software ( such as Zone Alarm, yuk...

I reckon this is true. Still, back to the subject, how the flip can we block it from getting in in the first place. This reminds me of the Blaster virus that came onto your machine just "by be being on the NET", (not dependent on looking at an infected website or anything like that). MS...

So, do we think that when the Fake Antivirus / Security alert 2010 (or what ever it calls itself this week) appears on the screen it is still possible to kill the process and remain un-infected. Personally ( and imho of course ;) )- I think not. As I mentioned further up ^^ - we had a customer...

I think I am with you kjv1611 on this one (at least leaning that way ;) ) It would explain why even "non surfers" such as my mother managed to get it. Note to self - No don't even think about ZoneAlarm = hate it !! Mind you, if that is the case, I wonder how it gets past the firewall in the...

No I don't think so. My elderly mother got it a couple of weeks ago and she does not use PDF's, I don't think she even has Adobe reader on her laptop. She only opens emails she knows the origin of and only visits very ordinary websites (BBC, & flower arranging sites mostly !!) One of our...

p.s. = Current thread re this at = http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1583053&page=1 JB - N.W. - UK.... If at first you don't succeed, keep at it until you can't even think straight !

I too have been trying to find a "proactive" defense against this one. I (we) do not have a problem fixing it (on customers machines, 50/50 Home & Small Business) using a either use a Linux "quarantine" PC (re-imaged each use) with a variety of tools. Even booting on the host PC and running...

Edit = Please ignore this thread - I just found a discussion on here about just this and I will join in on that one ! If any mods are here, feel free to delete this topic btw = yes I do feel silly now !! Note to self = check before posting !! JB - N.W. - UK.... If at first you don't succeed...

Hi all from John in the N.W. UK Firstly, this is a "discussion", I do not have a problem, (well not any that relate to the following anyhow !!) During our daily work we see more and more infections from "drive by" viruses, known generally under the name "fake anti virus". As many on here will...

Thanks for that kwing112000 They 2 VLANS are in adjacent offices. (VPN etc is too slow for uploading the large graphics files they wish to share.) Yes that would be easy, except A - The office setup that we have NOT been working on is all MAC and we know nothing about networking MACS B -...

@ burtsbees - thanks for the input friend, They are on totally separate lans and need to stay separate (except for a share space on the NAS box) They will be on different subnets but we cannot, and do not want to touch the MAC network (except for allowing it access to a space on the NAS box...

Thanks for the input folks :) The customer is wanting to keep the 2 networks separate other than a "shared space" on the NAS box. This is because the 2 networks belong to totally different departments. This is part of the problem we have to work out ! Our job was to install the new Windows...

Hi all. With no experience of MACS at all we have a question ! (tho not solely a MAC question - hence it being here !) Situation = A customer of ours has = A MAC LAN / WAN network working fine. A new Windows LAN / WAN all working fine. This new network uses a NAS box as a central file...