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May 23rd, 2005, 05:31 AM
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Question about a virus
I had a client bring in his computer and said he could not get it to do anything at all. He stated that the last thing that it had done is come up with a blue screen and that was it. He was running Windows XP home sp2 updated. Well after hooking it up I could not get any of my diagnostic programs to work on boot up. So I decided to try and boot a linux distro to ram which worked. After searching through the harddrive on the computer I noticed that there were tons of files that were renamed or missing. He had Norton's and Mcaffee both on it and all the files in these folders were renamed with names that were very vulgar (i.e. s**thead, F**k You, etc..) well after getting into his registry I noticed that it was totally destroyed. Now this is the first time that I have ever had a computer that came to me that had every file renamed and the registry trashed that would ban any diagnostic check from running. I was wondering if anybody else has ever seen this type of virus of was it something new? I wasn't able to capture it to disk as it kept changing its own file name.
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