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Osce0la
4/3/2006, 01:49 PM
Anyone ever heard of this? My wife's over at her parent's house, and for whatever reason they don't have any anti-virus stuff on their computer. She said it is saying it is infected with the blackworm virus. Anyone know anything about this virus?
Skysooner
4/3/2006, 02:11 PM
http://forums.techguy.org/security/451753-solved-black-worm-virus.html

Google is your friend.
mdklatt
4/3/2006, 02:20 PM
Anyone ever heard of this? My wife's over at her parent's house, and for whatever reason they don't have any anti-virus stuff on their computer. She said it is saying it is infected with the blackworm virus. Anyone know anything about this virus?

If they don't have any AV software, how do you know this?
NormanPride
4/3/2006, 02:22 PM
If they don't have any AV software, how do you know this?

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Osce0la
4/3/2006, 02:38 PM
If they don't have any AV software, how do you know this?
I don't...the wife sent this info to me via text message, I haven't been by to look at it. She said it told her it is infected with the Blackworm Virus, and she said everytime she gets on IE it boots her off...I was thinking they must have some kind of anti-virus something for her to know what kind of virus it is...
Osce0la
4/3/2006, 02:43 PM
This worm is different and more serious than other worms for a number of reasons. In particular, it will overwrite a user's files on February 3rd.
See, I'm not really sure what it will do now since apparently this virus just hit their computer recently (I know it wasn't there over the weekend).


We will try to post more detailed cleanup instructions later. However, it is likely that you will have to rebuild the system from scratch.

Oh boy...


It will disable most anti virus products and delete them. The worm will e-mail itself using a variety of extensions and file names. It will add itself to the list of auto-start programs in your registry.

Oh boy...

Oh well, not my computer, not my problem...I don't know how to fix these things, so I'm not even going to try (for fear of making it worse rather than fixing it).
Beano's Fourth Chin
4/3/2006, 02:45 PM
No such thing. Blackworm is a hoax. Just ignore it.
mdklatt
4/3/2006, 02:47 PM
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]


When will people learn not to open every random file they get in an e-mail?
Osce0la
4/3/2006, 03:04 PM
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]


When will people learn not to open every random file they get in an e-mail?
I've wondered this myself...Especially since, once I started reading about this, I remember seeing something about this on the news a few months ago...
slickdawg
4/3/2006, 03:06 PM
Sure you're not talking about a "pure alabama black snake"??
SoonerInKCMO
4/3/2006, 04:33 PM
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]


When will people learn not to open every random file they get in an e-mail?

Only after the chosen 10% are left following the upcoming Ebola plague. :texan:
Harry Beanbag
4/3/2006, 04:39 PM
Sure you're not talking about a "pure alabama black snake"??


Yeah, I was thinking maybe they had too much interracial pron on their hard drive.