well, THAT was a long night...
Jan. 5th, 2008 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearSomehow (likely from a spyware ad at mininova) one of my boxes (VideoToaster) got hit by a trojan, a particularly nasty one because one of its main targets is to replace various start-up programs with itself, including avg's main daemon (my virus checker). It worked on the protocol that allows a dll to be automatically started (and be unstoppable, locking the file) at windows startup in order to be available for IE as a plug-in (the same technique that keeps Adobe Acrobat loading quickly in IE). It also has a nack for renaming its main dll making it harder to follow.
It took 4 passes with Vundofix, AVG, and HiJackThis to finally get it gone, around 1:30 in the morning. I'd started "fighting" it at 7pm.
It hit the start-ups of QuickTime (no biggie) and my two older mp3 player daemons (no biggie) as well as M$'s intellitype/intellipoint and THAT was annoying - it reset all of my keyboard and mouse settings.
So I'm still VERY tired, but no rest for the weird - gotta Foggy Bottom sword tour today, though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faireraven 's going to games day instead.
It took 4 passes with Vundofix, AVG, and HiJackThis to finally get it gone, around 1:30 in the morning. I'd started "fighting" it at 7pm.
It hit the start-ups of QuickTime (no biggie) and my two older mp3 player daemons (no biggie) as well as M$'s intellitype/intellipoint and THAT was annoying - it reset all of my keyboard and mouse settings.
So I'm still VERY tired, but no rest for the weird - gotta Foggy Bottom sword tour today, though
faireraven 's going to games day instead.
