Archive for the 'antivirus' Category

A doctor’s approach to a USB drive viral infection

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Symptoms :
* All hard drive partitions ( C: , D: , E: , …) have an autoplay
* Internet Explorer homepage set to some Thai site . Internet Explorer shows “Hacked by Moozilla” (sic)
on the title bar
* USB drives, and cameras and memory cards and portable hard drives and USB mp3 players and everything
USB shows [...]

Smallpox as a bioterrorism agent ? Smallpox rears its ugly head in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.
Although naturally occurring smallpox has been eradicated( not quite true – see above), there is still heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of [...]

Small pox – not eradicated ? – some things you should know about smallpox

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Questions about smallpox
 Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.
What should I know about smallpox?
Smallpox is an acute, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus (an orthopoxvirus), and marked by fever and a distinctive progressive skin [...]

What is smallpox ? Details about small pox viral disease – thought to be eradicated

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans.Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form, V. major, has a mortality rate of 3–35%, while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called alastrim [...]

OfcpfSvcs.exe – virus or worm (or a harmless system file)

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I saw this file OfcpfSvcs.exe running in the processes tab of Windows Task manager.
Looks suspicious – I’m not going to trust any file which I can’t confirm is a system file. Especially if it’s run by the user or admin and not system.
Maybe its a malicious virus which gets into all your pen drives and [...]