Win32:Host-C is bugging me

From: "Sigi Rindler" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp>

| During the last 2 days I have been swamped by a Trojan called
"Win32::Host-C". These worms were all caught and eliminated by AVAST,
| however. Still, this recurrence is very annoying, and I fear that this beast
| has invaded my system.
| I have read that this worm disables a number of firewalls and other security
| programs (among them the WindowsFirewall and other well known programs).

| What can be done to stop that? This worm was discovered first on March 23,
| 2006 but someone here might have caught it and know more on how to react.

| Murgi

Answered in alt.comp.anti-virus

Please learn to Cross-Post to only pertinent, Topic, News Groups and not Multi-Post.

Answered in alt.comp.anti-virus
Please learn to Cross-Post to only pertinent, Topic, News Groups and
not Multi-Post.

From: "Sigi Rindler" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp>

| Thanks for telling and giving advice, but
| how would I know that you or anybody else would answer my question in the
| other NG? I was looking for a quick fix. Both NGs have a different audience,
| except for some who are subscribing several NGs.
| course, if my computer problems were not very pressing I'd have found out
| the appropriate NG.
| Sorry for the trouble.
|
| Murgi
|

If you Cross-post, that is post to BTH News Groups at the same time, a reply would also go
to both News Groups at the same time.

There was no trouble, just a slight correction so you'll know for future posts.
Cross-Posting is preferred over Multi-Posting simply because all Cross-Posted News Groups
get all the replies so all benefit from the discussion.

From: "Sigi Rindler" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp>


>If you Cross-post, that is post to BTH News Groups at the same time, a
>reply would also go
>to both News Groups at the same time.

| Dave,
| one more question

| I have posted to both NGs individually (one after each other). How do I know
| that a reply would automatically go to both newsgroups?
| There might even be more than 2 NGs that deal with viruses. I believe that I
| saw only one NG address in the field "Newsgroups" ( Express).
| I fully understood your advice on crossposting.

| Thanks,
| Murgi

| The problem has been solved after running "Webroot Spysweeper" again
| However, after that I started to get pestered by "Antispylab" which "found"
| numerous spywares etc. Every minute I received popups. Finally I checked the
| net and was told to click on "Shileds", "Internet Explorer" and "Reset IE
| Page Setting to Defaults". Now I am a happy camper again:-)
| Maybe this Antispylab has planted the worm first and came back 3 days later
| to follow up with an "unresistable" offer.

The problem with Multi-Posting is that a reply to one group only goes to that one group.
As I tried to explain if you Cross-Post to multiple News Groups the replies go to all News
groups that the post was Cross-Posted to.

In E you would just add the News Groups separated by a comma to the "Netwsgroups:" field.
For example

alt.comp.virus , alt.comp.anti-virus
or
alt.comp.anti-virus ,

Then the post would go to both News Group in the "Netwsgroups:" field.