Forum Archive Index - March 2000

["John H T Wilkinson" <jhtw@clear.net.nz>]

Thanks for your reply Willi.

 

Yes it was a Wild Goose Chase.

 

Warnings are appreciated, however when they are given my experience highlights the need for all known information to be supplied so that readers are not sent off on Wild Goose Chases. A lesson for us all!

 

I wonder how Philip Robinson got on?

 

Cheers,

John Wilkinson

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Wilfried Roding

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Friday, 24 March 2000 16:30

Subject: RE: [sharechat] network.vbs - Wild Goose Chase

Dear John

 

I don't want to send everyone on a wild goose chase.

The story is, that my virus software found a network.vbs virus at the same time the kak virus was doing its rounds.

Not knowing where I had contracted it from, I mentioned it in my kak virus alert on sharechat as a precautionary measure.

If you have Windows Script Host installed on your system you will have a network.vbs file in the WINDOWS directory anyway.

However, I understand that an infection is only identified when this .vbs file is found in the root- or start-up directory.

So if your virus checker (assuming it is updated) finds no infection, you should be OK.

Furthermore, it would appear (so the fundis say) that this virus can only be transmitted via a shared network. So heck knows where I got it from, since I have no network.

 

Sorry about all the fuss!

 

Regards

Willi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz [mailto:owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz]On Behalf Of John H T Wilkinson
Sent: Friday, 24 March 2000 15:31
To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
Subject: Re: [sharechat] network.vbs

Hello Wilfried,

 

I checked my hard disk and found that I too had the file "network.vbs" sitting on my hard drive in C:\WINDOWS\SAMPLES\Wsh.

 

My InVircible Anti-Virus Expert System is always on alert and did not signal any warnings so I printed out that file and found it headed "Windows Script Host Sample Script", Copyright (C) 1996 Microsoft Corporation. It's purpose is to demonstrate how to use the WSHNetwork object.

 

Just to make sure I did not have a time bomb sitting there I took your tip and spent a couple of hours downloading and using the McAfee virus checker, which after going thru all 23,000 odd files on my computer, came up with zilch!!!

 

Is it possible that your network.vbs file has something wrong with it and everyone else's is OK?

 

Regards,

John Wilkinson

 

PS: 23,000 odd files !!

      Good God, where did they all come from?

      I am tempted to use some of Windows housekeeping tools but then I suspect the machine takes over and I may loose files I want to keep!

      Any suggestions anyone?

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Wilfried Roding

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2000 18:11

Subject: RE: [sharechat] network.vbs

Dear Phil

 

Go to http://www.mcafee.com/centers/clinic/ - all is self-explanatory from there.

 

I suggest you install a virus checker such as Nortons or McAfee.

I run Nortons Utilities, an excellent package of useful maintenance software including a virus checker.

 

Apparently network.vbs is not a serious infection. You must however find, isolate and delete the malicious files.

 

Regards

Willi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz [mailto:owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz]On Behalf Of Philip Robinson
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2000 12:50
To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
Subject: [sharechat] network.vbs

Dear Will,

 

You mentioned the file network.vbs. I have searched for this and I have found it. Is it another virus and what should be done about it? Your advice would be very helpful to one who is virally ignorant.

 

Thank you

Philip Robinson