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Display blinking on explorer jhunn06 09-05-2007
Posted by jhunn06 on September 5, 2007, 5:50 am
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 I have a Tecra M2 that was infected by a virus that affects windows
explorer. I did a full restore using the restore CD that goes with it.
The installation completed successfully and was ready to get updates
from Microsoft. When I run Internet Explorer the display would blink
or toggles the window to restore and maximize size rapidly.

I did a reinstallation process again to isolate the problem. I never
connect to the internet or network after the winXP OS install. I
opened control panel and same thing happened.

Has the virus affected the firmware or bios of this machine? Please
help. thanks!


Posted by jhunn06 on September 5, 2007, 6:15 am
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 by the way, the virus must be new originating somewhere in Indonesia.
An infected machine will have its explorer hijacked and a message of
"file not found...explorer.exe..." but actually explorer can be opened
then it has a tiled black picture background of a ghost-like figure
holding a sword on one hand and something on the other. You will see
this background in c:\windows folder.

sorry, I don't know the name of the virus that affected the machine.

cheers!

On Sep 5, 5:50 pm, jhun...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a Tecra M2 that was infected by a virus that affects windows
> explorer. I did a full restore using the restore CD that goes with it.
> The installation completed successfully and was ready to get updates
> from Microsoft. When I run Internet Explorer the display would blink
> or toggles the window to restore and maximize size rapidly.
>
> I did a reinstallation process again to isolate the problem. I never
> connect to the internet or network after the winXP OS install. I
> opened control panel and same thing happened.
>
> Has the virus affected the firmware or bios of this machine? Please
> help. thanks!



Posted by Lars on September 5, 2007, 3:43 pm
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:15:52 -0700, jhunn06@gmail.com wrote:

>by the way, the virus must be new originating somewhere in Indonesia.

How do you know that, Indonesia?

What makes you say it is a virus in the first place?

Don't you have an anti virus program active?

Have you scanned your registry for malware?
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Did you try any of the online virus scanners? (They take a long time.)

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml


Lars
Stockholm

Posted by jhunn06 on September 5, 2007, 8:51 pm
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hi Lars,

> How do you know that, Indonesia?
I had people itenerating from there. It was through the usb flash
disks they were swapping files with. It must be a new one coz
trendmicro was not able to detect it or maybe the user's data pattern
was not updated.
>
> What makes you say it is a virus in the first place?
after windowsXP boot a message window would appear and say something
like "explorer.exe could not be found...either the path...".
When I run explorer it works fine. The c:\windows folder has a dark
tiled background image of a ghost-like figure holding a sword at one
hand and something on the other. The folders and files can be seen
alright.
>
> Don't you have an anti virus program active?
every machine has trendmicro. we are running an enterprise version in
the AD server.
>
> Have you scanned your registry for malware?http://www.safer-networking.org/
I scanned it with adaware, spybot, avast, clamwin. Avast can delete it
at boot time.
>
> Did you try any of the online virus scanners? (They take a long time.)
>
I rather reinstall the OS completely instead of spending a long time
in scanning.
---snipped parts----
> Lars
> Stockholm
I just need help on why the newly restored machine would behave as
what I described. Very weird. I'm in the process of submitting this
virus though.

thanks. -jun


Posted by Lars on September 6, 2007, 5:55 am
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:51:03 -0700, jhunn06@gmail.com wrote:

>I rather reinstall the OS completely instead of spending a long
>time in scanning.

Some viruses hide themselves in sections of the HD where it will
not be wiped out by a reinstall.

You should definitely report your observations to the makers of your
anti virus software. New viruses pop up all the time. Someone needs
to tell about it.

Lars
Stockholm

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