Posted on 02/12/2010 10:34:08 AM PST by zeugma
Windows doesn’t kill people.
Dude, your stuff will get taken out en masse when a worm gets in there.
Yeah - was watching the update running then the PC rebooted and all came up ok ... but he runs Spybot and Defender ....
That's generally a good idea as long as you have a hardware firewall, and don't happen to go to a hacked site. (Occasionally even "safe" sites can give you bad stuff.)</p>
<P>I run Linux so I don't really worry about such things as much, but I run on the bleeding edge with Fedora on my desktop (primarily so I can report any bugs found to the community) so I occasionally have update pain as well.
I really should have followed that "don't fix what ain't broke" philosophy last week when I had a box get unstable enough after an update that crashed that I had to reload it. Fortunately I have good backups. OTOH, it was a good opportunity for me to get that box up to Fedora 12.
No thanks. Don't allow ms-windows in my household. My post was just to make freepers aware of a possible issue.
I know - my OS/X upgrade cured all of this stuff a couple of years ago. :)
Links to some anti-rootkit tools:
I’m not so sure about that.
ATAPI is a cd instruction in the boot config no? I have not seen that one since win 95. Just wondering aloud,
Thanks for the warning! I’m letting others know also
F'd computer? Just boot from the CD and load the image you previously stored. No screwing around
I usually clean up my boxes every week or so and create a new image at that time.
My XP PC is mothballed for now. If and when I start it up, I’ll look out for this.
My AV efforts have been diligent—I have two AV programs, Macafee and IOBit Security 360.
Practically, if you get this problem, try to boot from a recovery disk and then restore to an earlier state. Then run your AV and clean out the rootkit virus.
bump for later
“I’m always 100% patched and have my virus software current however don’t forget about java, flash, etc. updates.
I got nailed several weeks ago by a java exploit even with everything else 100% current.”
Good point. I use Secunia, which tracks all insecure programs on your computer and links you to the updated version for patching. It’s amazing how often Java and Adobe are updated with security patches.
“Windows doesn’t kill people.”
Except through suicide.
;-)
ya, but my comp was preloaded. hence i have no xp disk. what should i do besides kill myself?
thanks.
The problem for me wasn’t this patch causing blue screens but one of the February patches somehow managed to delete “mkunicode.dll” from my Haali splitter folder. Without that file you can’t play MP4 or OGG videos. I suspect it was their DirectShow patch but it’s a good thing I had it backed up.
If I ever did go to Windows 7 that would be the first thing I downloaded. Apparently Microsoft's "change for the sake of change" also means they're too stingy to include the classic menus.
BUMP
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