RE: [OT] Weird PC error when scanning using Adaware

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks guys for your help ..

I have managed to solve a bit of the problem :-)

It was a virus and it was running .. but it was sexnet.exe or something.

Anyway I will check all the other machines and recommend everyone upgrades
to SP2.

Thanks for your help!

Ho yin


At 16:28 17/01/2005, you wrote:

>Oops - forgot to mention - the pint about this being from another
machine...
>If this PC is behind a firewall, you have another machine on the local
>network that is infected with the virus.
>
>Ian.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 17 January 2005 15:44
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Weird PC error when scanning using Adaware
>
>
>Sounds like the machine isn't patched against the DCOM exploit (which
one!
>;) )
>
>This only happens when *another* machine on the network (or internet if
the
>machine is exposed) uses the DCOM exploit to drop a payload on the
machine.
>
>Installing XP SP2 will patch against this (and a host of other)
exploits. To
>be honest, given the increase in security of SP2, there would have to
be a
>really serious reason not to update all of the XP machines as a matter
of
>course.
>
>Ian.