[tech] curdane infected

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Oct 12 16:11:41 WST 2009


On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, James Andrewartha wrote:

> curdane has some problem resolving microsoft.com, symantec.com and
> f-prot.com, which leads me to believe it's got a virus of some sort. 
> F-Prot's definitions were never updated, so someone needs to reinstall 
> Windows. I've rendered it unbootable until then, but the filesystem is 
> still there and Mandriva works fine.

For the record, I'm pretty sure it was infected with Conficker based on 
the files it put on my USB stick.

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