My W2KAS box got hit by some malware while browsing this afternoon. This is the first time this system has been infected that I'm aware of. I don't run AV SW on it since I'm not aware of any free SW for the AS version of W2K and I'm normally quite careful. I noticed the problem because a bunch of DOS boxes started popping up as the trojans were apparently kicking off. Luckily, I had Ad-Aware on the box and it pointed out various trojans ("vxh8jKdq" exes and "vxgame" exes with various numeric suffixes) along with "CoolWebSearch" malware. It flagged the "ATTRIB.INI" in my system directory and I noticed this file had scoured the IE auto complete fields which included some confidential info. I don't know how this all got kicked off since I have the browser fairly trimmed back security wise but I managed to finally get bit. I suppose there isn't any way of knowing if anything got reported out. I did yank my network connection once I noticed what was going on.
Does anyone know of any free AV SW I can run on this W2KAS system to make sure things get cleared out? I’ll research the particular trojans that were called out by Ad-Aware. I hope that letting Ad-Aware quarantine what if found will be enough for those particular nasties but I also want do a proper viral sweep now.
Does anyone know of any free AV SW I can run on this W2KAS system to make sure things get cleared out? I’ll research the particular trojans that were called out by Ad-Aware. I hope that letting Ad-Aware quarantine what if found will be enough for those particular nasties but I also want do a proper viral sweep now.
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