Symantec, virii, Kodak, hurrah.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

So there's this machine that Seebeck says has a virus. I can't find it. No one else can find it. I trust that it's there - we just can't detect it. Or rather, McAfee VirusScan 8.0i Enterprise can't detect it. Nor can the Stinger from August. In one last ditch effort before I format, I was going to bring my Norton Antivirus 2005 cd from home and run a scan off the cd (without installing the program). I notice you can load the latest virus defs from a floppy, so I browsed over to Symantec's web site only to see this:

End of Life for Floppy Disk Definition Sets

Beginning Thursday, August 18th, 2005, US Pacific Time, Symantec will no longer be releasing definitions sized to fit a set of standard 1.44 MB floppy disks. Due to the increasing size of virus definitions files and the supplanting of floppy disks with other technologies, we will no longer be releasing definitions in this format. Definitions will continue to be made available through all other current methods.

... crap. I don't suppose any of you downloaded the last set from August before they removed them? Yeah, if you don't really want to help me, then this post is really about the luser who downloaded a virus and stupid Symantec who stopped posting floppy defs two months before I was actually going to use them. ARG.

Oh, and damn Kodak for making you create a web site login before you can download camera software... (Stupid luser is running Win2k so the camera driver wasn't installed automatically like it was on all of our WinXP machines.)

Comments

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

Download the DAT file, burn to CD or use USB disk and use it on the other machine?

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could actually install the program and manually update the dat files. But I'd rather not. I'd have to uninstall McAfee, install this one, yada yada yada. I wouldn't be able to activate it (it's my personal copy). Plus I don't want McAfee and Norton anywhere near each other... I'd have to put McAfee back on when I'm done (licensing, etc.). Yeah.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

http://security.symantec.com/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I guess I should also have mentioned that the computer's MAC address was banned from the campus network.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

I ran into that Kodak stupidity with one of my users too. I've had to reinstall her Kodak software more times than I'd like to think about, and it's always a pain in the ass.

[saintaspartame.livejournal.com]

Stinger only detects 54 virii at last count and isn't meant to be a replacement for virus protection software.

If you, your scanning programs and no one else can find it, then it's prolly not there. But, you could always boot using BartPE and run a command line scan using the latest DAT files from McAfee, the URL for BartPE is:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

You'll have to d/l the latest DAT and then incorporate it. Both the DAT and BartPE are free, and worth the time.

[jecook]

I was going to mention that as well.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I actually have an UBCD and an UBCD4Win I could try. It never even crossed my mind. Doh.

[jecook]

What? No flames? No rampant shouts of "RTFM, MOTHER F%#@ER!!"??

I thnk we've gotton lax. :)

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

*breathes cautious sigh of relief...* :P

I could have bitched about how I, a partial network administrator and tech support person, had to take time out of my day to tutor the new university registrar's secretary on how to use the calendar in Outlook 2003. Sigh. (Took 50 minutes...)

[revchris.livejournal.com]

Take the hard drive out, put it in a different machine, and scan the crap out of it with Symantec. Then check for adware/etc.

I've got several different scanners in my computer just for those times when we're not sure if Symantec's really getting everything.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I always found Avast (http://www.avast.com) to be a fine AV program.

And why is this person so sure they have a virus?

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

I prefer AVG anti virus.
GREATEST virus-scanner i ever got.
small, fast, good and fast updates, great service and.... freeware :) (at least the personal edition)

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

What I did was built a self running virus scan CD using the Prescan engine off the nav 2004. (you can't do this with NAV 2005 because the precan engine is intergrated into the setup executable, but on Nav 2004, it's an individual exe.)

Simply grab the \prescan and \virusdef folders and burn em to CD.

Update the virus def's by simply grabbing the latest defintion files from an updated machine and playing them in the \virusdef folder, then run prescan\prescan.exe.

you can automate things by building an appropriate autorun.inf like I did.

When I service a system, I simply chuck my custom made NAV Prescan CD into the drive, walk away and let it run.

you could probably do something similar with a USB flash drive as well.