I stupidly opened osama found hanged

[newbie]

I stupidly opened and ran osama found hanged post. the
file I downloaded just disappeared. What have I done and
can I fix it?

 

[Andy Wiggins]

Home user or company user?

Company user - consider resigning.

Home user - what virus software do you use (you DO have virus software,
don't you?)

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Andy Wiggins
www.BygSoftware.com
Home of "Save and BackUp",
"The Excel Auditor" and "Byg Tools for VBA"

 

[Guest]

Both, working from home. My creditors and my spouse don't
think resigning is an option.

Yes, Symantec Norton AV and it is up to date, as are all
Microsoft patches.

Am I going to get fired?

 

[Robert Kent]

I stupidly opened and ran osama found hanged post. the
file I downloaded just disappeared. What have I done and
can I fix it?

I have this bridge you might be interested in....

 

[Dave Peterson]

I searched google newsgroups for "osama found hanged virus" and the second link
returned showed this:

BackDoor-AZV.gen TROJAN VIRUS ATTACHED TO THIS DOWNLOAD. DELETE IT!!!

Then back to google to search for "backdoor-AZV.gen"

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_123844.htm

Maybe you can find something at norton/symantec.
http://www.symantec.com/index.htm

 

[Andy Wiggins]

Follow Dave Peterson's advice.

Praying is also good

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Regards
Andy Wiggins
www.BygSoftware.com
Home of "Save and BackUp",
"The Excel Auditor" and "Byg Tools for VBA"

 

[FTV_]

*I stupidly opened and ran osama found hanged post. the
file I downloaded just disappeared. What have I done and
can I fix it? *

This is your boss. You're fired... LOL.... LMAO even.....

DAMMIT BOY! What were you thUnkin'?

;

 

[newbie]

Thank you for your help. I have spent some time
researching this in the past 24 hours and have found that
on my machine at least this is not backdoor-AZV.gen, and a
search of the symantec site for backdoor-AZV.gen does not
return any results, curious. Anyway, I did after perusing
many usegroups find that the thing that got my machine was
backdoor.hacarmy.d, although my Norton AntiVirus Corporate
Edition with the latest virus definitions did not catch it
(this is also a little strange), the symantec site does
list the symptoms
(http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ba
ckdoor.hacarmy.d.html), I checked my machine and indeed I
found the file <system>zonelockup.exe and a registry entry
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run with an
added value "Winsock32driver"="ZoneLockup.exe".
This virus attempts to access your machine via port 6667,
fortunately my firewall did not have port 6667 open so the
malicious intruder would not have been able to access my
machine anyway.
I have cleaned my machine and I have learned a lot.
Perhaps the most important thing I have learned is that
being stupid is not a sin but it is a lot of work.

 

[newbie]

Unfortunately, I actually did lose my job over this.
Probably deserved it, I know I wouldn't want anyone
looking at my medical records and with HIPAA in place now
I guess my employer's liability justifies it. Anyone out
there looking for a medical records transcriptionist?