OT : worm tenga

[lisztfr]

Sorry for being OT,

Anycase be warned for this worm, for the moment i can't tell
how i get it. i was not on dangerous sites, or maybe ??
But with firefox and proxomitron.
I would like to know how i was infected. this is a very stupid
or smart virus which copy itself in any exe file, and the system
get more and more damaged. AVAST seems the main tool against
that.

laurent h

 

[Ben]

Anycase be warned for this worm, for the moment i can't tell
how i get it. i was not on dangerous sites, or maybe ??
But with firefox and proxomitron.
I would like to know how i was infected. this is a very stupid
or smart virus which copy itself in any exe file, and the system
get more and more damaged. AVAST seems the main tool against
that.

Firefox and Proxomitron make your browsing safer - don't ever assume
they make you invulnerable. Tenga.A is pretty old now. If you didn't
get it through unsafe browsing, you probably got infected by not keeping
your copy of Windows patched - Tenga was also targetting systems
vulnerable to the DCOM exploit from last year. If you've caught a newer
version of Tenga (if there is one) it's probably just been updated to
exploit a different Windows vulnerability.

B

 

[lisztfr]

Ben a écrit :

Firefox and Proxomitron make your browsing safer - don't ever assume
they make you invulnerable. Tenga.A is pretty old now. If you didn't
get it through unsafe browsing, you probably got infected by not keeping
your copy of Windows patched - Tenga was also targetting systems
vulnerable to the DCOM exploit from last year. If you've caught a newer
version of Tenga (if there is one) it's probably just been updated to
exploit a different Windows vulnerability.

You're right, i never made a visit to windows update, since the updates
are too big and never ending. I took the challenge to not updating...
Foremost, remember that MS will drop Win98/ME support very
soon.
Finally, this worm destroyed definitively CloseAll.exe and Regprot,
maybe other files too... but the registry seems OK.

laurent h