Norton, network, virus?

[Potato]

I came back to school, plugged into the network and bam... I started getting these Norton popups saying they found a virus and deleted the file. These popups keey coming back, butthe file listed is not on my computer. They come in threes and only come up when I'm connected. I need the connection for internet... unless I want to stop using the internet... which I don't want to do.

Someone directed me to this: http://www.devhood.com/messages/message_view-2.aspx?thread_id=58013

Others told me to get the fix for it, and fix it, but it's not on my computer, it's on the network...

I've got to run now, but here's a screenshot.

What can I do? Is there a way to tell Norton to stop with the popups?

[Krell]

Potato429

I gave you the direct link to download and run the fix_nimda.exe

If you have run that and it shows no sign of Nimda, then use your college skills, and write down EXACTLY what the error message says, and if there are any options with the message. thx

[phalkon30]

It sounds like krell has you covered, but here is the symantec security response for it, scroll all the way down to the bottom where it says REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS

I've found their isntructions to be very easy to do

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html

[zaphodiv]

As I recall, nimbda spreads itself to any writeable shared drives and folders on other computers on the network.

Do you have your drive shared?
Is there a hand on the icon for drive c: in explorer?

If other computers on the network are infected and those computers can access your drive it will be trying to spread to your omputer.

[Potato]

My drive is most definitely NOT shared.

There is a happy little hand holding onto the Shared Doc folder, that I didn't make and is just there. It's empty though.

[Krell]

R E A D It slowly . . .


Now, remember me telling you NOT to send ANY emails until you ran that Fix Nimda Huh?

1) DID you run Fix Nimda repeatedly like I asked you to . . . yes or no?
a) Yes you did, but you may stil be infected

b) no you didnt follow dirrections, and I would touch you with a 10' pole



2) You ran Fix Nimda like I asked, repeatedly, and the dos util states NO nimda found

a) you contact your school system administrator

b) keep clicking the OK button.