Virus?

[captain_video]

I had a bizarre incident happen to me last night while processing a bunch of ty files on my PC. I recently upgraded one of my hard drives to a 160GB WD and created a single extended partition with an NTFS logical drive containing all of my extracted ty files and full set of Seinfeld episodes compiled for DVD. I was transferring a bunch of ty files while VOB-muxing some others when TyTool8r4 choked and spit out the remaining ty files with error messages. I went to check the directory on the drive where the ty files were being processed and couldn't access the directory.

To make a long story short (a first for me), some nasty glitch occurred that wiped the entire contents of the 160GB drive (over 100GB of processed ty files). On top of that, neither Netscape or Internet Explorer would function afterwards. When I checked the drive using Partition Magic, it showed two empty blocks within the extended partition and no logical drive. I ended up recreating the logical drive and now I'll have to copy the files back to the drive from the DTivo and my set of Seinfeld DVDs. Fortunately, nothing I lost is unrecoverable.

I ran Norton Anti-Virus and discovered 10 files that had been corrupted, including run32.dll (?). I had been getting a lot of junk e-mail lately and I'm sure more than one of them had a nasty surprise attached. I was able to reinstall Netscape as I still had the setup.exe file on my PC. It was just really weird that it happened the way it did. I'm sure it had nothing to do with jdiner's TyTool and it was more likely a virus that was geared to go off like a time bomb. Hmmmm. I wonder if I got some fan mail from DB? Naahh!

[malfunct]

This almsot certainly didn't cause your problem but dump tytool8r4 it was a preview to show features of the GopEditor and does not cut correctly in all cases. It was never meant to be distributed widely.

With tytool9r2 out having TONS of improvements maybe its a good time to upgrade.


BTW there is a new version of Mydoom running around and this one is supposed to have a "surprise". I didn't read what it was, but it might be worth looking in to.

[captain_video]

Thanks for the info. In fact, I was on my way to download 9r2 when I saw your reply to the thread. I'm off to get it now.

I just checked the version I had been using and it was 8r6 and not 8r4 as I indicated. I was reading something about 8r4 in another post earlier today which is why it stuck in my head.

[BubbleLamp]

You do run anti-virus software on all your machines, don't you Cap't? Anything less is asking for trouble.

[captain_video]

You do run anti-virus software on all your machines, don't you Cap't? Anything less is asking for trouble.


I run Norton Anti-Virus on a regular basis. I try to schedule it to run at least once a week at night but it looks like I should be running it more often. The strange thing is that ever since it happened my transfer speeds from Tivo to PC have slowed to a crawl. I think I'm down to about 400 kbytes/second. I'm thinking about rerunning the Win2K installation to see if it will fix any broken files. If that doesn't do it I may have to reinstall everything from scratch. It's a pain but sometimes it helps to purge everything and start fresh to clear out the cobwebs anyway. I've got too many useless programs I need to get off the C drive anyway.

[malfunct]

I run Norton Anti-Virus on a regular basis. I try to schedule it to run at least once a week at night but it looks like I should be running it more often. The strange thing is that ever since it happened my transfer speeds from Tivo to PC have slowed to a crawl. I think I'm down to about 400 kbytes/second. I'm thinking about rerunning the Win2K installation to see if it will fix any broken files. If that doesn't do it I may have to reinstall everything from scratch. It's a pain but sometimes it helps to purge everything and start fresh to clear out the cobwebs anyway. I've got too many useless programs I need to get off the C drive anyway.

You also need it to get updated regularily, the old virus signatures, anything older than 1 or 2 days before mydoom hit, were unable to detect or remove it. My emoplyer has a policy on the network that we update our virus signatures daily, which is good if you have the bandwidth.

[captain_video]

I've got the Live Update feature set up with it so it should be getting updates as they're rolled out. Every time I run it manually it seems to already have the latest anti-virus updates.

[mrbillpsu00]

I've got the Live Update feature set up with it so it should be getting updates as they're rolled out. Every time I run it manually it seems to already have the latest anti-virus updates.

Actually, Live Update doesn't do that - exactly. I have Live Update running - and there are several times that I force an update, and it get a new version of DATs....

Get in the habit of running weekly... you'll be more up to date...