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August 30th, 2005, 02:32 PM
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PC infected after only an hour on the 'net
I have my sisters Compact 5100c on my bench, I had just reloaded it with Win ME, The OS came on it from the factory
I installed Symantec antivirus to protect it from infection and mistakenly installed Antivir for win 9x ( I fell asleep at the switch, I did not see Symantec come up so I figured I forgot to install and antivirus program )
They took the PC home, hooked it up and did some online banking, then they played a song and it was downhill from there
The virus name is W32.Licum and it has infected the file in C:\Windows\rundll32.exe
I know this is a crictical file and this virus has got through two virus scanners, My nieces said they never opened any attachments, They delete any unsolicited emails in their hotmail accounts
I told them to drop hotmail since it is so prone to spammers
I was wondering if a hardware firewall would protect them better, ( Linksys WART54G ) Or zone alarm , Plus installing Symantect antivirus client
I live in the same area and have no virus problems, We are both on the same ISP which is a cable Internet service
They have no router firewall, I do
Could they have been infected just browsing the 'Net or were they hacked
It looks like a reload is in order
Thanks all for your help
Format c  I'm givin er all she's got cap'in !!! )
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