sue mccartin
December 14th 03, 03:07 AM
You got one of the nasty ones that shuts down norton, I
thought they'd dealt with that one but maybe this is a new
version. It came back when you restored because the little
bugger is still alive on your drive someplace. The only
suggestion I've got for you is to contact symantec/Norton
they may have a way to deal with it. The only other thing
you can try is to download a trial version of another
product and hope it can't shut that one off too.
I've got 2002, crossing my fingers I don't run into that
one. Unfortunately these brilliant little monsters have
found ways to make viruses run just by having your view
window turned on. Turn it off if you can (full outlook
can do it, I'm not sure express can do it). There must be
something in the air, the other night I had no less than
20 bounces off my firewall for jackwipes trying to plant
sub7backdoor trojans on me within just a two hour period.
I've also had about a dozen infected attachments come in
over emails in just the past month. Turning mindspring's
spam filter on has cut it down considerably but a few are
still sneaking through because the spam filter only
catches known spam addresses unless you set it to block
anyone that isn't in your address book--which is kind of
self defeating for the way I use the net and go on
newsgroups.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Home with Norton Antivirus 2003 and
>Norton Internet Security (NIS) firewall and broadband
>ADSL. A few days back I was attacked by several viruses
>all form the same source which the Antivirus picked up
>and dealt with. On the same date I found I couldn't
>access a lot of web pages including Hot mail form IE and
>noticed that NIS was not running and when I access the
>NIS contral screen I found it had been turned off and
>every feature disabled. When I try to enable it again it
>tells "Access denied -only the supersvisor can
>view/change the options" If I try to uninstall NIS to
>reinstall it tells me I have to enable the software
>first - catch 22! I used Windows XP Restore to go back a
>few days befor ethe date of the hacking/virus and NIS
>reappeared enabled again but when I closed the ADSL down
>and went back in again NIS was gone again and disabled
>with same message about 'only the supervisor..." I tried
>Restore again but even going back to the date I first
>installed XP it tells me it cannot be restored 'as there
>are no changes on your system' I have I been/being hacked
>and is there anyway I can unistall NIS?
>Mike
>.
>
thought they'd dealt with that one but maybe this is a new
version. It came back when you restored because the little
bugger is still alive on your drive someplace. The only
suggestion I've got for you is to contact symantec/Norton
they may have a way to deal with it. The only other thing
you can try is to download a trial version of another
product and hope it can't shut that one off too.
I've got 2002, crossing my fingers I don't run into that
one. Unfortunately these brilliant little monsters have
found ways to make viruses run just by having your view
window turned on. Turn it off if you can (full outlook
can do it, I'm not sure express can do it). There must be
something in the air, the other night I had no less than
20 bounces off my firewall for jackwipes trying to plant
sub7backdoor trojans on me within just a two hour period.
I've also had about a dozen infected attachments come in
over emails in just the past month. Turning mindspring's
spam filter on has cut it down considerably but a few are
still sneaking through because the spam filter only
catches known spam addresses unless you set it to block
anyone that isn't in your address book--which is kind of
self defeating for the way I use the net and go on
newsgroups.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Home with Norton Antivirus 2003 and
>Norton Internet Security (NIS) firewall and broadband
>ADSL. A few days back I was attacked by several viruses
>all form the same source which the Antivirus picked up
>and dealt with. On the same date I found I couldn't
>access a lot of web pages including Hot mail form IE and
>noticed that NIS was not running and when I access the
>NIS contral screen I found it had been turned off and
>every feature disabled. When I try to enable it again it
>tells "Access denied -only the supersvisor can
>view/change the options" If I try to uninstall NIS to
>reinstall it tells me I have to enable the software
>first - catch 22! I used Windows XP Restore to go back a
>few days befor ethe date of the hacking/virus and NIS
>reappeared enabled again but when I closed the ADSL down
>and went back in again NIS was gone again and disabled
>with same message about 'only the supervisor..." I tried
>Restore again but even going back to the date I first
>installed XP it tells me it cannot be restored 'as there
>are no changes on your system' I have I been/being hacked
>and is there anyway I can unistall NIS?
>Mike
>.
>