From:                              LEONG JIAWEN KELVIN

Sent:                               Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:19 PM

To:                                   Ivan Wee

Cc:                                   OIS

Subject:                          RE: Suggestions for  Thumbdrive Virus & Windows Virus

 

Hi Ivan,

 

RE: Suggestions for  Thumbdrive Virus & Windows Virus

 

There are several major discrepancies in your Security Advisory which you dispatched this afternoon, which I will outline below.

 

As of this moment, I have successfully fixed at least 50 student and facilitator laptops who are infected with the Thumbdrive viruses, without formatting, or employing any use of anti-virus nor anti-spyware tools in which your IT Helpdesk has been installing on the students’ computers. My prior experience includes 2 years of employment by a major spyware/adware provider in Canada.

 

I have also personally trained 5 other students in creative malicious software removal methods, and so far, they’re performing quite well on their own, too.

 

The discrepancies I have found so far are the following:

·         Disabling the Autorun function in Windows XP via the registry is not going to stop users from double clicking on the drive itself – in fact, Windows has a system built into place to disable Autorun from being loaded if the filesystem is Read/Write.

·         There are more than just those two virus variants spreading around, others would include variants such as mth.exe.

·         There is a misspelling in Ramone.exe, it should be RavMonE.exe

·         RavMonE.exe is merely a downloader which downloads other malicious code which employs undocumented startup methods, some rather amusing, at least.

 

My claims are not without justification, in fact, the methods you have stated in the advisory has already been attempted by my team. We have already conducted research and to a certain extent, basic reverse engineering of the malicious applications in question.

 

However, I am willing to meet up for a discussion with my team to suggest solutions which already have been tested out – but on a small scale (since we do not have official backing by any current authority) – and it is proven to be exceptionally adept as a counter-measure against the “Viruses”

 

Best Regards,

 

Kelvin Leong


HP: 91847477

MSN: hot_wired13@hotmail.com

 

From: Ivan Wee
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:59 PM
To: OIS
Subject: Security Advisory - Virus Outbreak - Thumbdrive Virus & Windows Virus - Oct 11 2006

 


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Security Advisory - Virus Outbreak - Thumbdrive Virus & Windows Virus

                                                                       

 

Message

We have two types of viruses spreading in campus. OIS has formed a team to deal with it. OIS would like to keep you informed about the findings.

 

1.             Logos_1.exe Virus (Windows Virus)

This virus will cause a pop up in your laptop by our e-Trust anti-virus. Our e-Trust anti-virus is able to contain it and clean it. Do not worry. We have our action plan to stop it by tomorrow. 

 

2.             Ramone.exe (Thumbdrive Virus)

This virus passes around thru thumb drive. We have pushed out a Registration Key to all laptop to stop the auto-run when thumb drive plugged in. You need to reboot your laptop to make the key effective.  We are working on the fixes of this virus.

Please see Action below for steps to do.

 

 

Affected Systems

Laptop.

 

 

 

Background

We have confirmed that the default scanning engine cannot detect & clean the thumbdrive virus.

 

To Do Action

Please change your antivirus settings for CA antivirus.

1)     right click the antivirus icon,  select real-time options.

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2)     From the next screen please select VET and click ok.

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3)     Please restart your laptop.

 

(If CA antivirus is not installed – it may be installed from advertised programs or at http://antivirus.rp.edu.sg – Do also make sure that any other antivirus software are uninstalled before installing. )

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your kind understanding.


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