Swen Virus Infection

Posted: 10-07-2003, 08:44 PM
Ran a full system scan w/Norton. 63 files detected as
infected; they are quarantined. They are all .exe files
with exception of one .com. Here are some sample names:
awwu.exe, axhbwr.exe, etc. ALL 63 files have properties
of 104 KB and are listed as TMP files.

I ran the norton cleanup tool for cleaning up swen (which
I had already downloaded a couple of weeks ago. It
reported "computer not infected".

My questions:
1. Do I now delete these files in quarantine? Norton
would not accept them for analysis, saying they
were "known already as Swen...." When I tried to "repair
and restore" Norton couldn't do it. Will deleting of them
hurt the system.

2. What are TMP files? I looked in all my books and
couldn't find the definition. Is there a place where I
can go to look up file types?

I reenabled the firewall (had been disabled, probably by
Swen!) and disabled system restore during the running of
the cleanup tool. System restore is now restored.

What next. Delete those 63 files? Will they need to be
replaced by something?

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Re: Swen Virus Infection
Posted: 10-07-2003, 09:52 PM
Sharon;
Generally delete all files in quarantine.
TMP is another name for temporary files.
You can safely delete *.tmp files.

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"sharon warden" <smarwar@msn.com> wrote in message
news:049c01c38d0b$63e95aa0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Ran a full system scan w/Norton. 63 files detected as
> infected; they are quarantined. They are all .exe files
> with exception of one .com. Here are some sample names:
> awwu.exe, axhbwr.exe, etc. ALL 63 files have properties
> of 104 KB and are listed as TMP files.
>
> I ran the norton cleanup tool for cleaning up swen (which
> I had already downloaded a couple of weeks ago. It
> reported "computer not infected".
>
> My questions:
> 1. Do I now delete these files in quarantine? Norton
> would not accept them for analysis, saying they
> were "known already as Swen...." When I tried to "repair
> and restore" Norton couldn't do it. Will deleting of them
> hurt the system.
>
> 2. What are TMP files? I looked in all my books and
> couldn't find the definition. Is there a place where I
> can go to look up file types?
>
> I reenabled the firewall (had been disabled, probably by
> Swen!) and disabled system restore during the running of
> the cleanup tool. System restore is now restored.
>
> What next. Delete those 63 files? Will they need to be
> replaced by something?
>

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