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NIMDA Virus and MS Access

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lgvelez

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Jun 6, 2000
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Our company was attacked by the NIMDA virus, and suddenly we are having problems with the databases on the backend. Anyone else having this type of problem? The problems seem flakey, and are databases that were very stable before the virus.
Thanks in advance. Laura Velez, MCP
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Fixing this virus sometimes makes shares inactive, if I remember correctly. You should have someone look to make sure all of your share permissions are set.

Hope that helps... Terry M. Hoey
 
It did not seem to compromise our connections. What I was really wondering about was data corruption. When the virus hit my PC, the computer went totally beserk ... I could not log in, and when I did programs opened on their own, and all of the system resources were eaten up. Our IT HelpDesk person worked on it for an hour before he discovered that it was caused by a virus. The company's virus protection had not been updated in a timely manner. Within 3 days after the attack and clean up, our main database started having data corruption problems, and now other DBs that I am not even associated with are having problems. My system is currently getting an FFR right now. Laura Velez, MCP
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I have first hand experience with Nimda, and at first glance I don't remember anything that would corrupt Access.

I know that it attacks riched20.dll, which is used by, I beleive, Word , Wordpad and Outlook.

I also know that it will create shares. As the previous poster wrote, perhaps the Virus fix Unshared some needed network connections.

It will also create a bazillion E-mails, which will be identifiably by an .eml extension. They'll be evrywhere, but a good indication is if *.emls are in user directories.

Nimda will also attack IIS server. And infect HTML pages.

Nimda orginally hit us on the 12th. If your firm has been trudging along for a month with the virus active, perhaps it's done some things that I'm not aware of. Tyrone Lumley
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Thank you Tyrone!
Your experiences were somewhat like ours. The attack on my computer was on Sept 21, and the plethora of emails, etc. was our experience exactly. As crazy as my workstation went on that day, I believe that the virus indirectly did damage. I seen a few sites (Symantec, I think) that does mention peripheral damage. Laura Velez, MCP
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