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Spears · Grandmaster Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 428

Well- I just acquired the Nimda virus- or some bullshit virus that doesn't allow you to access your folders (denied) and such... I didn't think much of it until I rebooted...

It wouldn't boot up, most of the startup files were missing or corrupt- so I did a clean install of Windows (because I have 2 partitions, 1 for windows, the other for apps and such) I didn't think much of my other files would be affected.

Now running on a reinstalled version of WinXP- ALL my folders, including Trillian, all my music (10 gbs worth) all my dvds (20 gb worth) and all my documents (being a law student, THIS is what is going to make me pass, I'd risk my life for these documents) are all 'access denied'- I searched for hours on end looking for faqs and such- but still nothing. I even tried my Norton AV- and it can't find the bloody thing...

If anyone can help me salvage this stuff- I'd REALLY appreciate it...

FUCK NIMDA. Slut.
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Y · Guest

dont use norton...
nimda can be removed from files... and some time from exe ( although not alway working)
the denied access comes likely from your anti virus

Solo_Core · Dyso MOD|Forum Admin Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 745

bri one gave me the link to this
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
can't promise that it works, but it's worth a try i'd say

not_so_unique · Master Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 199

Yes... is Norton preventing you from accessing the files? Or can you simply not acces them using the assigned default application for opening files of that type? If so, temporarily disable, uninstall (whatever) Norton and burn those damn files to a CD before it's too late.

To simplify... can you at least copy you important files to a CD?

My guess is that the virus was embedded in an .EXE file of an application that was on one of the secondary partitions. When you ran that application, it reinfected the whole machine... back to square one. Just a thought... hard to say without putting my own eyes on the machine.

Anyway, this link may help. It is Symantec's details on the virus. It's a pretty lengthy document and removal would require some effort.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html

Marquis Drayfox · Fox Child Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 1390

I browse the web a lot and when I do, I will often see little Norton virus alerts pop up telling me that it has found and deleted Nimda files. This has happened *a lot*. But, I have yet to have any troubles with it.

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ShadowCore · Great Deity Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 2833

Errr...FoxBoy, I don't know WHAT you are doing to your PC, or on the web, but I suggest you stop it because that can't be good

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Y · Fri 06/06/03 1:13pm

Shadow you toke the words out of my mouth

Marquis Drayfox · Fox Child Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 1390

Uhh... AIM? MSN? Cable Internet? Um... Planetside? Warcraft III? I don't know. I seldom if ever look up porn or anything like that.

Other than that I don't know what it could be...

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Jon316 · Sat 06/07/03 7:31pm