Antivirus 2009 is a new Virus!

Antivirus 2009 is "a new and improved" version of the virus "Anti virus 2008". To remove it you must have the latest version of Spybot and the latest version of the Detection Rules (=> than October 15 2008).


If you are infected you probably won't be able to use the infected PC to install Spybot. On another PC burn a CD with the Spybot downloads (Both the program and the detection rules). Boot the infected PC in safe mode, install Spybot, and open the directory where the rule updates are.Then click on the update file. Spybot will be updated from this file without Internet access.

Spybot is supported by your donations. There is a Paypal button on the download page to make a donation.


If you need assistance with the removal, and you are in San Diego County go to my homepage (911computer-rescue.com) and contact me!

Computer Virus on International Space Station

Even “Rocket Scientists” can get a computer virus!

Space.com in a copyrighted article by Tariq Malik, reports one of the 71 computers aboard the space station (ISS) has been infected by the worm identified by Symantec as W32.Gammima.AG.

The source of the infection was a flash drive. When the drive was inserted to the USB port, the computer was set to autoplay and executed an ".exe" program.

If they call me to clean the virus I am really going to charge an “astronomical” fee!

Priceless!

Ofinpa.A Virus - New Virus Bad Business!

It was a shock when my anti virus software (I was using CA) detected the Ofinpa.A Virus. I had just clicked on a link that was contained on a Craig's list posting (for a San Diego web developer). I after the CA software cleaned the infection I went to the CA virus encyclopedia (Link:
http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=66710 ), and found:

"HTML/Ofinpa.A is a detection of HTML files that have been modified by Win32/Ofinpa.A
Infected HTML files contain appended code that attempts to connect to the domain ntkrnlpa.info and download and execute a file. At the time of publication, this link returned an empty file."

The virus was added to the CA definition file on 10/29/2007. It is a new virus.

I have been researching this virus to see when other anti-virus providers will include it their virus detection updates. One has to remember that each software provider may change the given name of the virus slightly. Most maintain a cross reference list.

The take home message is to have current virus definitions that are automatically refreshed frequently.

This is especially important for computers used for business purposes! Need help with computers for your San Diego based business business? Contact me at SanDiegoCIO@gmail.com !