I think the virus writers are busy

[GomJabbar]

A coworker of mine just got infected on his Vista Laptop (UAC turned off). He thinks he got it from an email. He had trojan-vundo, rogueware Soft Stronghold, and some adware. He is in the process of trying to remove it now.

I have Earthlink pop3 email service, and Earthlink scans all email for viruses before putting it in my inbox. I have received some alerts from Earthlink in the past couple of days of infected email.

I also have received a couple of warnings from my AV software Avira that some trojan was trying to install itself in XP and later in Vista.

Could this by any chance have to do with the Windows 7 release a couple of days ago I wonder?

[killer]

Thanks for the warning, GomJabbar. We'll go on full alert in this house.

[Temetka]

The virus writers are always busy.

We never go off alert in this house, our shields are always up.

What would posses your co-worker to disable UAC? That's like knee-capping the security guard.

[GomJabbar]

What would posses your co-worker to disable UAC? That's like knee-capping the security guard.

No doubt some tip he received from another coworker or family member.

He finally got his system fixed. Tryed a couple of scans with Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (in SAFE MODE and Normal Mode), a scan with a six-month-old version of Combo-Fix (in SAFE MODE), and a scan with ESET NOD32 which he had installed but this did not fix his problem with the rogueware Soft Stronghold. He could only get to his Yahoo homepage with IE. I copied the install file for Opera 10 to a CD for him, then he was able to browse the internet. He found a program he had been running, the trial version of SUPERAntiSpyware, had expired, so he downloaded and installed the latest version. He did a scan with that and it removed Soft Stronghold.

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos ... junk_files

Now that he is up and running again, he tells me he really likes Opera. He had only been using IE up till now.

[mattbiernat]

in that case i knee capped my security gourd. i have supposedly a virus on my X300 but that was on a clean install of 7. NOD32 says that it cannot remove it. hmmm....

[Marin85]

Clean install of Windows 7 with virus included? And people complain Vista was overbloated... Did you update the virus database and the program components of NOD32 before scanning? If yes, then you may want to try Kaspersky

[mattbiernat]

Did you update the virus database and the program components of NOD32 before scanning?

yeah but it still says that unknown virus was detected. who knows maybe my files on external HDD were infected, but i doubt it because it didn't find any virus in Vista.

[GomJabbar]

I saw the following link posted on a Linux forum...
Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem

[mattbiernat]

I saw the following link posted on a Linux forum...
Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem

interesting, good thing i have another computer running reliable XPSP3

[RealBlackStuff]

After having had it only for about 3 hours on my PC, I removed Windows 7 (RC) from it already.
I'll wait until at least W7/SP1 comes out before I give it another try.

[Marin85]

After having had it only for about 3 hours on my PC, I removed Windows 7 (RC) from it already.
I'll wait until at least W7/SP1 comes out before I give it another try.

But why would you bother giving it another try ever again? Seriously, it is very unlikely that those little 'quirks' of Windows 7 you found so annoying will disappear with any upcoming SP.

[RealBlackStuff]

In about a years time I'll be building a new PC, then it's early enough to put W7 on it on a new HD, without having to worry about shifted drive letters and other oddities.
By then (i.e. SP1), a lot of quirks will have been sorted (hopefully).
I am not against W7, it's just useless for me at the moment.
Because of the shifted Programs and Data drive letters, I can't have this on my current machine AND work with it on a regular basis.