Topic awaiting preservation: Damn Policy-Trashing Virus (OptixPro.12)...

I recently got a nasty virus called OptixPro.12 (actually, it's a backdoor) and it was a bitch.... it ran 2 processes that would start each other up when you killed any one of them individually..

I booted into Console Mode (Win2K) and deleted the files, but I found upon rebooting that I'm no longer allowed to run executables.

...as a workaround, I can do something like 'Open blah.nothing with Mozilla' and it works, but 'c:\Stuff\Mozilla\mozilla.exe' returns 'Cannot file the file...'. Also, right-clicking on 'My Computer' and clicking 'Properties' returns 'Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied'.

...To me, this reeks of a policies issue, but I don't know how to fix it on Win2K...

How do I give myself my permissions back?

I need the Win2K to connect to my school's LAN becuase I don't know how to do it with RedHat/KDE...

How *DO* I connect to a Windows network with RedHat Linux?


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hopefully you where not using Administrator as your main user and you can then log in to administrator.. create a new user and move your user to that new user..
else you have to log into safemode and run the policy editor and check your settings.. i cant remember but i think its poledit.
i dont know the exact registry keys that set permissions.. weee.. its been so long since i've used windows..

weeee....

Petskull, you can use Samba to connect to the Windows network from *nix...

Check out this [url=http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.optixpro.12.b.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DOptix%2BPro%2B.12%26hl%3Den%26 lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8]page[/url] it's got the settings for the relevant registry keys.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.optixpro.12.c.html

yeah, this is the one I ran into... (me thinks)...


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