Viruses

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

What was the name of the virus, and how did they remove it?

I have seen of a few machines that after this past week's Patch Tuesday,
after a reboot the "Open With" was changed from Microsoft Word or Excel to
just Microsoft Office which of course made most office documents look like
they were gone/broken/etc. The problem was never with the data files.
Changing the "Open with" back to the proper application seemed to have fixed
it in their cases.


> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of  Richard Kreiss
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:25 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Ot: Viruses
> 
> One of my clients early Friday morning to advise me to stay off of their
> system.  They were being attacked by a virus that was encrypting or making
> unreadable a large list of Office type of documents and photo formats.
They
> eventually found the machine from which the virus infected their system.
> 
> Luckily  filePro was not damaged by this attacked except for an old mdb
file.
> 
> They did have backups which were made to a NAS.  However even the files
> on the NAS were attacked.
> 
> The suggestion I made to him, and it is not original with me, was to
backup his
> system to the NAS and the backup the NAS to tape.  His comment to me was
> tape is old school.  My answer was that the tape would not have been
> attacked.  Yes, if he backed up on Friday it would have been infected
files.
> However, the backup for that day would not have been made.
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> 
> By the way, they are running Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, which
> missed the particular virus attacking their system.
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> 
> Office: 410-653-2813
> 
> 
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