RE: Common Name Virus hides D:\ drive

Just be aware kazaa won't run after ad aware cleans your system...I use soul seek

http://www.slsk.org/

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From: H Carvey [mailto:keydet89@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:41 PM
To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Common Name Virus hides D:\ drive

In-Reply-To: <000f01c30337$8279a280$1ff938ca@deepak>

>I am in desperate need of help.

I should say so...CommonName isn't a virus, for starters.

>I use Kazaa to download documents, and since the past

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2 days I have seen all

>kinds of Spyware like Common Name / Mozilla files /

Eula files etc... being downloaded on my PC.

A lot of that is installed along w/ things like Kazaa

and iMesh, by default. Installing the apps, then

running AdAware and Spybot will usually catch it all.

I'm not sure how "Mozilla files" fits in as "spyware",

though.

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>Today my D: Drive has all its files hidden (3GB of

information) all renamed

>/ hidden, and I am not able to see it through DOS /

making the disk a

>Secondary Hard disk by adding another Windows disk as

the Primary disk.. but no luck.

Given what you've said, there's really nothing to

indicate a link between the two events...spyware and

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"missing" drive. Have you checked your BIOS settings?

 Does the BIOS recognize the drive?

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