Nasty Windows 2000 virus?

I have a machine that yesterday would not launch a DOS program for one of our tool room guys.

So I went up there today to see what happened.

The computer:

a) no antivirus
b) Command Prompt would open and immediately close
c) If trying to go to antispyware/antivirus websites (malwarebytes.org,symantec.com, etc.) would say page cannot be displayed.

So, I took the hard drive out of the computer and put it in a spare desktop we have (not on the network...)

because when trying to boot into safe mood, I would get the BSoD.

Malwarebytes & Symantec don't seem to be seeing anything. (Not in safe mode currently.)

Any suggestions?

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HeroPsycho

Fade, I gotta say Kaminsky is kinda right here regardless. If she obstructs you from fixing the problem, ask for clarification of what the company's established procedures are. If she doesn't give you any, then what I would do is document what the "network guy" does. If it happens again, you have a SOP to go by, so if she won't let you do the work, document document document that.

The bottom line is she must agree you're allowed to do the work before you can do it. Do whatever it takes to get her to allow you. Sometimes pushing to do the work is counterproductive to your cause.

vCole

Just an update

I finally got this thing working.

It was a worm that Avast ended up removing.

My boss was all

so I think she's pretty happy right now.

Since this machine was a mission critical machine

skrpune

YAY!

KGhaleon

I actually got hit by conflicker yesterday, five machines down. meh. Gotta reimage them though, since they are fairly lacking in updates and software.

HeroPsycho

Congrats, are you building cred with the her because of this (hopefully)?

vCole

HeroPsycho wrote: »

Congrats, are you building cred with the her because of this (hopefully)?

Well when the Network Consultant came in and agreed with me on everything 110% I think it helped.

HeroPsycho

Nicely done! Now you know what works. Do this a few more times, and you probably won't need to get his blessing anymore. Just make sure you don't do anything stupid for awhile. The reality is everyone makes mistakes, but her trust in you is obviously fragile at the moment.

vCole

is the reaction from her & the manager of the department who needs this machine to do their job.

Revenue

hehe congratz! I get his reaction a lot in my work but give it 2 hours iv gone from Hero to Zero when another unforeseen issue arises lol

the_Grinch

Congrats, glad to see you push through it! Like Kat Williams says you gotta keep your star on!

KGhaleon

Grats.

At my workplace our network hicupped and 200 machines locked up at the same time. o_o; It was as I was getting ready to leave for the day. Took hours to get the server/network team involved and a high priority ticket created...by that time I had people coming to me every 5 minutes screaming about the issues.

shednik

FadeToBright wrote: »

is the reaction from her & the manager of the department who needs this machine to do their job.

Just for safe keeping lol I'd take an image of this machine if its really running a mission critical app since it sounds like thats the best you'll get with the way your boss runs IT. My last company was like that I spent an entire day trying to get patches to a 2000 box rolled back so it would boot again....since it had the source to the inhouse account software on it

to the people who had that idea...but good job fade keep building that cred:D

vCole

shednik wrote: »

Just for safe keeping lol I'd take an image of this machine if its really running a mission critical app since it sounds like thats the best you'll get with the way your boss runs IT. My last company was like that I spent an entire day trying to get patches to a 2000 box rolled back so it would boot again....since it had the source to the inhouse account software on it to the people who had that idea...but good job fade keep building that cred:D

Already did that my friend.