[s-cars] NAC - My pc is being used as a mail server, need help!

[Steve Powers]

Once you get rid of it you may want to virtualize your browser.

By running a virtual machine, you effectively limit your exposure to a
process on your machine - not the entire machine itself.

VMWare and Microsoft both offer free virtualization kits. I use VM
Player from VM Ware. It's basically a Linux (Ubuntu) shell running on
top of Windows XP. I run Mozilla in that shell. Anything that attacks
Mozilla can at worst only kill the process. You can setup privileges
such that you limit disk access, etc. All multimedia works as normal
though you do need to download new applets for Flash, etc. to run in a
Linux environment. (You'll be prompted when needed)

Here's VM Player - http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

Steve Powers

On 8/30/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may have gotten a rootkit virus, or whatever they're officially called.
> Grisoft does have a rootkit removal tool for free on their website, I'd
> check that out for starters.
>
> I'd also try a commercial spyware program- I have spysweeper and the CA
> Internet Security Suite installed on my PC.
>
> I'm surprised that Symantec is not suitable for this kind of stuff- I'm
> running Symantec Anti-Virus (the enterprise version) at work and it seems to
> catch nearly everything. I have plenty of idiots at work trying to download
> stuff and install stuff that they shouldn't be doing- group policy works
> great for this, although I might have to shut off all web browser capability
> if this gets any worse.
>
> My Dad once downloaded some sort of virus or something similar that
> basically killed his PC- I couldn't get it to boot to the desktop, it would
> hang right before the desktop came up- I replaced his PC because it was
> outdated already and not worth fixing.
>
> Nice meeting you at S-Fest!
>
> Taka
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