W95/MTX gen@m virus is a evil watch out for this one !

[scotter]

just got a call from a hostol I do computer work for. The lady that runs the place says I think I just really messed up a got a virus can you came fix this.
Me sure be right there
2hr's later I've got the system at home and McAffee's has been scanning the drive deleting and renaming corrupted files for over a Hr this virus has infected every .dll .exe and a few other's on this hard drive.
if it was not for the fact that she has some very inportant documents on this thing she needs to get I would be running wipe on this drive right now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif
and I still am not sure I'll be able to get her info off this computer http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif


this came in as a file attacment named

NEW_NAPSTER_SITE.TXT.PIF



[This message has been edited by scotter (edited 05-10-2001).]

[jray]

Hey neighbor, sounds like you've a busy night ahead...good luck on that bug!

[jray]

Hey neighbor, sounds like you've a busy night ahead...good luck on that bug! And thanks for the warning.

[BFlurie]

I'm sure you gotta handle on it. A search for that filename (http://www.google.com/search?q=NEW_NAPSTER_SITE.TXT.PIF&btnG=Google+Search) brought up a bunch of hits.

[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 05-10-2001).]