Security Error 6000 (XP and Vista), Security Error 9000 (Vista)
January 9, 2009 at 11:34 am Leave a comment
I’m still working on these, but a preliminary sweep looks like the culprit is probably a variant of a fairly old Trojan sort of maneuver; Backdoor.Agent.B…which installs a *.dll file. It could have been anywhere. CNET has been hit; so have ZDNet and PCWorld; this isn’t something that affects just the idiots who visit “that kind” of site. This is the click-jacking I’ve been talking about. A link from a popular online publication like eWeek can be manipulated.
Originally this was an XP-only version, which is understandable; the bulletin I’m looking at is February of 2007; it’s an advisory from Symantec (Norton). On the Vista computer I may finally choose to (once again*) just wipe and reinstall. At this point I haven’t gotten the CD’s (assuming there are some, I’m going to have to ask, and the Reyes family has less than perfect English; I’ll also do my research on the HP Pavilion model and see what should have been there if I can. Some of the computers put out in the days of 160-gig hard drives had the “recovery” discs on the hard drive, which was unfortunate in the case of a hard drive crash or for that matter in the case of a good virus.
Rose has a current copy of Norton 360. I tried running their removal tool. “Administrative Options” on the XP machine in Safe Mode just looped. It’s never been activated. I don’t think the computer has ever been registered. As I said, particularly on this XP machine which has visited a number of sites (unpatched; it was SP1 a week ago), I’d rather just start from scratch. That also will recover some space from some *.jpg files I saw listed on a Threatfire scan.
I had to uninstall Zone Alarm to install Norton 360, and I simply lack patience today. So I’ll play a game, and then go back to installing a bloody program. I’m trying to wait until the XP machine is done with its Threatfire scan.
–Glenn
*It’s been my habit with Windows for just a little while. Not that I’m trying to say all versions haven’t always worked perfectly. I’m sure they have. User error and all that.
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