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| subject: | Re: Strange business with WinVNC on my computer |
From: John Beckett Antii, A couple more things ... you could take the hard drive out of the computer and make it an additional drive on a known-good computer. Boot the good software and use it to scan the suspect drive. Naturally you would be very careful to not execute or copy any programs from the suspect drive. You could copy data files. One problem is that you have no clue what has infected you. All you know is that VNC was installed, almost certainly as a backdoor. So, searching for information or anti-virus scans regarding VNC is not necessarily going to help. Regarding the issue of you can't see how the software starts, following is some boilerplate from winnt regarding where programs can be set to repeatedly start: - In the Startup folder for the current user and for All Users. - In the registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows, the "run" and "Load" keys. You may want to use freeware Startup Control Panel from here: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml However, if you have been lucky enough to be infected with one of the newish trojans, they can hide themselves from searches of the registry and file system. Try the Safe Mode boot, but more reliable would be to take the drive to a known-good computer. You can Load Hive to inspect the registry from your install, after booting the good system. John --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/1.45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 379/1 633/267 |
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