[Ham-Computers] Apparent Hard Drive Failures

[Jim Hill]

Thanks for the tip.  These malware names are confusing!

I searched for win32-Bagel. Nothing was found, and win32-Bagle was 
suggested.  Checking it, I was  directed to Trojan.Tooso.F, which I 
guess is another name.  Anyway, I reviewed the removal, and checked 
hosts files to see if bad things were added - but was clean.  They 
said Trojan.Tooso.F was similar to w32.Beagle at mm except emails were 
not sent. A search for w32.Beagle at mm yielded nothing (but see below). 
Could you get me the exact name of the virus that infected you?

While searching, I stumbled across a list of removal tools.  See 
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/removaltools.jsp?sortby=byname
which looks like a much easier method of removing a group of viruses 
with similar names.

I searched for your virus. W32.Beagle at mm was the nearest name.  I'm 
running out of time, but will try it tonight.

Jim



At 12:43 AM 4/16/2007, you wrote:
>Just had the same issue on 3 computers last week. You probably have 
>the win32-Bagel virus
>Got to Symantec.com and download the special tool to remove it. It 
>will only get worse the more the worm grows,
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: Jim Hill <hro5-2 at cox.net>
>
> > I'm having serious problems with something that simulates a hard
> > drive failure on my Dell OptiPlex Pentium 3 running Windows XP Pro.
> > I'm using Eudora for emails.
> >
> > When the problem occurs, the initial Dell screen appears, bios is
> > loaded, then two beeps are heard and a DOS screen appears with
> > wording similar to: hard drive not found, press F1 to continue and F2
> > to run the setup utility. Sorry I don't remember the exact wording,
> > it's tough getting old!
> >
> >