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Brand New Virut or Virux variant

#1 User is offline   DavisMcCarn 

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 11:10 AM

Brought to me this morning is an XP system which has a brand new, undetectable variant of either Virux or Virut.

I have restored the registry to 9/10/2009 (thank you ERUNT!), deleted several trojan (.SYS) files using a Dos boot CD, and scoured the system; even running AVG's Virut removal tool (V1.22+) and nothing is detected (period) But; even in Safe Mode, running Sysinternals Autoruns, it starts to load, dissapears, and the Autoruns.exe file is then corrupted. Even better, it has been set so I can't copy it to send out for analysis!

The owner of the system was initially attacked on 9/30/2009.
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Posted 06 October 2009 - 03:34 PM

Virux and Virut are bad already. Possibly most people's worst nightmares in terms of computer viruses (along with sality - i think :thumbsup: ? ) so any new varient isn't welcomed!

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  Posted 13 October 2009 - 08:18 PM

Wow... that is scary :thumbsup:
A virus destroyed one of my older computers, it was infected with the old Virux. Now i'm hoping to work in the field of Computer Secuity.
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Posted 14 October 2009 - 05:54 AM

What I can't fathom is how ZIEF.PL keeps coming back online even though that is where the HTML version of the attack pulls the code from!
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#5 User is offline   mov cx ax 

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Posted 29 November 2009 - 11:37 AM

Was The 2003 F*ggot Worm In This Virus Family?

If So Virux Dates Back Way Longer Then We Had Thought!

Freaky!

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