What is
the Shockwave Trojan Virus?
Remember all those warnings you hear about
never opening an .exe attachment! This virus is why those warnings
appear. Discovered on November 30, 2000 this virus has the subject "A
great Shockwave flash movie" and the attachment is
"CREATIVE.EXE." Using Outlook, the trojan sends itself as an attachment
to every address listed in the address book of the infected user. This
Trojan also changes the filenames of all JPG and ZIP files and then
moves the files to the C:\ root directory. Because Shockwave is a
standard format for animation, most people will just think its a "cute"
file and open it...then the trouble starts. |
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How
to Clean/Delete the Shockwave Trojan?
Delete the
Creative.exe file from the Windows Startup folder and restart the
computer. Then use the file called C:\ MESSAGEFORU.TXT to manually move
and rename the JPG and ZIP files that the virus changed. The filenames
of these files are then appended with the text "change
atleast now to LINUX". For example, "XXXX.ZIP" becomes
"XXXX.ZIPchange atleast now to LINUX". The file C:\MESSAGEFORU.TXT
logs the original location of all files so it can be used to restore
all moved files.
When
viewed, the file C:\ MESSAGEFORU.TXT contains the following text:
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Hi, guess you have got the message. I have kept
a list of files that I have infected under this. If you are smart
enough just reverse back the process. i could have done far better
damage, i could have even completely wiped your harddisk. Remember this
is a warning & get it sound and clear... - The Penguin
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