re: Hijack this scan result
Monday, January 10, 2005 at 3:15 am
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Posted by Allan
(22 messages posted)
Hi Carol,
I’m sorry you feel you’ve been wasting your time.
You seem to have misunderstood my posts.
A brief outline of the events:
In the course of trying to fix my sister’s computer which had become infected, your
post alerted me that my PC had likely been infected with malicious code. I had used
my PC to try and post the log, as I couldn't get a working internet connection on
my sister’s faulty machine. I was unaware that the log “itself” posed a threat.
Your earlier post said:
"Ah, there's a good reason for that message. It protects others from getting a virus
infection, just by viewing your log! There's some malicious code in the log. This
is only the second time I've seen a case like this on the forum. The other poster
had some Java Script code, a "virus code", entries in the log.
No thanks, and even though I have protection, I'm not accepting an email like that.
Those entries are easy to identify, so you may be able to take care of that yourself,
then you should run an online scan or two. I'd suggest running McAfee Stinger, also,
in Safe mode....
...Judging by your description of the problems, it would be best to format the drive
and do a clean install."
My thinking on the matter is quite clear! From your description of the threat I only
had two options.
1. Reformat and reinstall Windows on my sister’s problem machine.
2. Scan my own PC for malicious code.
A priority was to attempt the recovery of vital personal files from my sister’s machine
before the reformat and ensure that the files were clean.
I sought your assistance to achieve these tasks.
The information you gave me was most helpful and may well help others reading this
forum.
The acerbic tone in your last post is unwarranted.
I wish you a good day.
Allan
On Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 12:07 am, Carol J wrote:
>
>Firstly, I've obviously been wasting my time. Your initial post was a request for
>help cleaning a "family member's" infected system. You're planning to format the
>drive on the problem machine, you don't need to do any more cleaning. Formatting
>will clean the infections, along with all the data.
>
>There's no reason to keep the HJT log. You had the log created, for the purpose
of
>posting it on the forum. You'd already opened the log and tried to paste it in a
>post. It doesn't sound like you have your thinking cap on. If you were going to
get
>infected, it's over. Forget about the log and delete it.
>
>
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>Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
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