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Quenching a QAZ quandary quickly...
From: Robert Washam <rwasham () FNCI COM>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:15:36 -0500
Well, it was fortune that brought Josh Brandt's post of 9/8/00 to my door:
The very day before, QAZ visited me. And keeps coming back. You feed these
viruses and they just want more and more and... Okay, so here is the
question: Since I am now the lucky owner of this wonderful virus, how is it
coming back all the time?
1. I've replaced NOTEPAD.EXE with Norton's Quarantine/renaming note.com;
2. I've done Reg Search & Replace and there is NO SIGN OF ANY BAD
notepad.exe OR QAZ in there;
3. The same machine gets hit every five to seven days;
4. It is on a private IP network (10.0.0.0) behind a Cisco setup for NAT
and with my SPECIAL access list to block most things/ports;
5. The only other machine running Windows XX is an NT Server that APPEARS
to be fine.
I suspect Outlook. But then again, I always suspect Outlook. Anyone know
how it might live in Outlook? I'm checking DOT files for template
infections, I've searched the infected system for note*.* and even *qaz*.*
but no luck.
Any help, as always, is appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
Current thread:
- Quenching a QAZ quandary quickly... Robert Washam (Sep 22)
- Re: Quenching a QAZ quandary quickly... Brad (Sep 24)
