[mitchntx]

Any one ever get this cock-sucker of a virus?

I've been fighting this thing for over a week.

So far the best results have been unplugging the network connection and doing deep scans with

Hitman Pro
Ad-Aware
Spybot
Spyware Dr.
Enterprise Nortons
ESET NOD32

The problem I'm having is that the HD activity goes berzerk at boot, progressively slowing the system till it crashes about 15 minutes later. So as you can surmize, I'm having to do these deep scans in small chunks.

Frustrating ...

Any one have any other ideas?

[mitchntx]

A little more information ....

Apprently this little beggar, along with a few others, exploits a JAVA hole in the recent versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you are getting notices about updating Acrobat Reader ... DON'T do it till Adobe patches the holes.

If you have updated to v8 (I think), do this ... regardless of which version, do this.

open up any adobe PDF file.

Select Edit
Select Preferences

In the Preferences menu window, highlight

JavaScript

and uncheck the "Enable Acrobat JavaScript" check box.


This should keep you relatively safe.