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Old August 19th 04, 07:41 AM
gxxdgrief
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, 9 large (1024 MB) .wip files
somehow got into my Win 98 system from the internet
through my 56 kbps dialup connection.
A Google search for wip files reveals that wip =
Windows Installer Project, and that these files open with
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer. Nothing in my very
simple PC uses anything like the Visual Studio.
These files total about 9 Giga bytes, and my hard
drive is only 11 Gig, so now I'm getting warning messages
about pending overload.
The files passed through all my Norton anti-virus and
firewall protection, and through Ad-aware also.
Does anyone know: where these files come from;
how such a large amount of data could get into my PC
without some kind of indication;
what havoc the files will do (forget about system
overload) if I do not remove them;
how do we prevent such intrusions in the future?
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated !!!
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Old August 19th 04, 01:01 PM
Eric
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Have you scanned the system with an updated virus scanner?

If you don't have one, try using the free AVG from
http://www.grisoft.com/.

If I were you, I would disable the Recycle Bin by right
clicking on its icon and then clicking Properties, because
those files are probably too large to fit in it. Then I
would delete them.

Download, install and run these free utilities until the
system is clear:

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
HighjackThis and CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/

Make sure that they've got the latest updates by running
their update features.

Go to
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip.
Download HijackThis! [freeware] Latest version is 1.98.
Unzip the Download file in a NEW FOLDER that you can
create before you start the download. DO NOT install in
your Desktop folder. DO NOT use any of the TEMP folders
that are presently in your computer. Double-click the
HijackThis.exe file and click on Scan. When the scan is
finished, the Scan button will change into a Save Log
button. Click: Save Log (doing this generates a
hijackthis.log file) Next, HijackThis = Config [button]
= Misc Tools [button]. Click: Generate StartupList log
[button] (generates a startuplist.txt file) Next, go to
this location: http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/. Sign
in, then copy and paste both files in your message.

HijackThis Quick Start Help: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

The Tutorial if you want to know more about the results or
the .log file:
http://www.merijn.org/htlogtutorial.html

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/


-----Original Message-----
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, 9 large (1024 MB) .wip files
somehow got into my Win 98 system from the internet
through my 56 kbps dialup connection.
A Google search for wip files reveals that wip =
Windows Installer Project, and that these files open with
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer. Nothing in my very
simple PC uses anything like the Visual Studio.
These files total about 9 Giga bytes, and my hard
drive is only 11 Gig, so now I'm getting warning messages
about pending overload.
The files passed through all my Norton anti-virus

and
firewall protection, and through Ad-aware also.
Does anyone know: where these files come from;
how such a large amount of data could get into my PC
without some kind of indication;
what havoc the files will do (forget about system
overload) if I do not remove them;
how do we prevent such intrusions in the future?
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated !!!
.

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Old August 19th 04, 01:40 PM
Mostly Me (MM)
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Eric wrote:
If I were you, I would disable the Recycle Bin by right
clicking on its icon and then clicking Properties, because
those files are probably too large to fit in it. Then I
would delete them.


Hi,

Shift-Delete will bypass the Recycle Bin.

MM
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Old August 19th 04, 01:58 PM
Mostly Me (MM)
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gxxdgrief wrote:

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, 9 large (1024 MB) .wip files
somehow got into my Win 98 system from the internet
through my 56 kbps dialup connection.



Hi,

I don't think you downloaded them through a 56K modem. Just one would
have taken many, many hours. It is impossible that you would not have
noticed it, and 9 files that humongous would have taken days to
download, even if your dial-up was connected 24/7.

So, they were either installed via a CD/DVD, or were created by a
program(good or bad)on your system. Although, it is hard to imagine a
program that would create such massive files and be considered "good".

Delete them(shift-delete to bypass the recycle bin), only good can come
from removing them.

MM


 




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