65tiger
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Have any of you had any trouble with a virus called spy bot.exe? I've gone as far as wiping my hard drive clean and reinstalling windows and putting Norton on before I connect to the Internet, but it keeps coming back.
Can it get embedded in the BIOS or something?
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01-16-2005 10:27 PM |
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ChicagoRocket
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Most modern BIOS chips can only be flashed by signed updates fromthe vendor of the chip. If you have an older mother board (2-3 years) it may be possible. it sould be a worm call w32.ogid. it is a worm that can attack mapped drives on your network or pass through peer to peer programs. Symantec virus definitions beyond October 6, 2003 will detect it.
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01-16-2005 10:51 PM |
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65tiger
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I don't know how old it is, but it's old. Norton is now supposed to be completely updated, so maybe I'm done with it.
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01-16-2005 11:03 PM |
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