OT - Ding Dong, the Wicked Worm is dead...

[Suicide Junkie]

Burn all your important files to CD.
Savegames, mods, etc.
Documents, bookmarks, desktop stuff.

Anything you don't have on CD.

Then, format your harddrive and reinstall windows, copy all your stuff back down, and reinstall your programs.

A new, good system (that I would buy) will run you only $500 Canadian if you put it together yourself.
Rebuilding your system as above will cost you $0, and no more than about 4 hours unless you've got tons of files you need to backup.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Burn all your important files to CD.
Savegames, mods, etc.
Documents, bookmarks, desktop stuff.

Anything you don't have on CD.

Then, format your harddrive and reinstall windows, copy all your stuff back down, and reinstall your programs.

A new, good system (that I would buy) will run you only $500 Canadian if you put it together yourself.
Rebuilding your system as above will cost you $0, and no more than about 4 hours unless you've got tons of files you need to backup.

So with this virus you can burn what needed files you want without getting infected files copied as well? The more I look into this virus the more it seems to be that way being the type of virus it is as it isn't really effecting any actual files such as .gam, .jpg, .bmp, .mp3, etc. Correct? A co-worker of mine has this virus at home and he is wondering if it is safe to burn his files to CD then reformat without getting the virus once again once he copies his files from CD back to his PC.

[Suicide Junkie]

Pictures don't get run, so there would be little point in a virus infecting one of them.
Mostly system files or newly created files that look like system files. Or programs like iexplore.exe so the virus is activated when you browse the internet.

All you really need to do is install your antivirus software first, and make sure its updated. It will then scan the files you copy back. You can scan your CD first if you feel like it.

[General Woundwort]

I'm probably going to be getting a new system anyways...

if only because the current system (the infected one) does NOT have a CD-RW - just a stinking 100MB zipdrive.

At least I can salvage the text and image files for SEIV, and my school work...

[Gryphin]

Is this the same virus that would be affecting
Copy / Paste and Linking on our Win2k systems?

[Richard]

You can run anti-virus and try to pick up known things, and of course go to windowsupdate and download all security packages.

It's just been my observation that almost everytime a worm like this hits it has secondary and tertiary payloads that are worse then the first one, and well hidden. Code Red, Code Red II, and Nimda showed that.

[Arkcon]

Heads up ...

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Long story short, get the patch before August 15th, the worm will launch a Denial Of Service attack against the Windows update webpage after that date.

Nice.