Virus warning * McAfee warning

[griffinspc]

A few days ago I started this thread: http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/041015.html

I found an answer that I wanted to post clearly so that's the reason for the new thread, same subject.

We were infected with a virus that the latest McAfee dat didn't pick up. The attachment to an e-mail was: FAXNOTIF.EXE, one of our people opened it despite all the warnings in the world.

Because it arrived as a blind copy I asked the sender if they had knowledge that it went out over the companies combined address book and they said yes and that they were shutdown.

I started to investigate. By the way they erroneously called it the Maestro virus which delayed everything.

Our guy maxximilian right here figured it correctly, it is the W32.magistr.24876 virus.

Here's the worst part of this thread. I sent the file to McAfee and they actually intercepted it as the above virus and sent back an email warning that I had sent them a virus.

Question, are they using Norton to scan their own mail, because the program they sell to us doesn't catch it.

I downloaded InoculateIT personal and tried it as a test and it caught it immediately.

With all the recent threads on scan software I thought you should all be aware that McAfee is &#$% !

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"Finest Kind"

[Forest1]

Wouldn't be the first time that a company uses another company's software. Heck Microsoft uses FreeBSD on their servers!

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There are no dumb questions only dumb looks....

If it doesn't work hit it with a hammer. If hitting it fixes it great! If it breaks, oh well it didn't work anyway.

[IMM]

Forest1 - Perhaps they should use OpenBSD instead - secure by default until they configure it?

[Dodge]

Hey griffin. For some reason, all of these AV's pick up on different things. Dont know why though. When I got the seeker virus, I did some checking and Inoculate claimed to be able to catch it. They didn't, neither did McAfee. Housecall did though. Very weird.

If you possibly have the resources to do it. Running atleast two Virus scans wouldn't hurt.

Also, Inoculate also has another service I run and seems to work great. It is an email scan called Mail Watcher. I have run it ever since I got that last virus and have no complaints yet.....

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Please remember to let us know if it worked or not...JJ

[Forest1]

A friend uses FreeBSD on his home LAN server and he forgot what his superuser password was, can you say "format and re-install"?LOL

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There are no dumb questions only dumb looks....

If it doesn't work hit it with a hammer. If hitting it fixes it great! If it breaks, oh well it didn't work anyway.

[IMM]

At that point the 'S' in $SU changes to another letter!