Ever seen a virus like this?

[Toddo97]

I'm not 100% sure this is a virus, but it looks pretty darned suspicious. Someone at work put in a help request that her daily virus check would error out every day. I went and took a look at it and during the scan, it would stop several times at various files and say that it could not scan them because the file name was too long. I did a search on her hard drive for some of the files and in each case, the file would be contained in a folder that also contained another folder called ".`" (no " s). Opening the .` folder I found the exact contents of the previous folder, including another .` folder. This went on for 75 folders w/in a folder so for example, xxx.dll was located in C:\windows\program files\.`\.`\.`\.`\.`\.`\.`\. etc. I did a search for .` and found over 1800 instances of it. Anyhoo, it was not identified as a virus by the scan because it could not complete the scan and I haven't been able to find out any info on a virus like that or haven't been able to fix the problem. Oh yeah, it won't let me delete the parent folders from windows or DOS. Any ideas other than reimaging the machine (which I'm getting ready to do??

 

[Mavrick007]

It sounds very suspicious to me. Perhaps you should do a scan in dos with a different virus scanner, such as F-prot.

Chances are that it's infected and you will either have to back up what you can, and then reformat and reinstall.

 

[VicodiN]

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[Beau]

Originally posted by: VicodiN
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[Toddo97]

Thanks for the replies--I'll give them a try. Hopefully they don't have a maximum filename length that it can scan (as Mcafee apparently does)

 

[NEVERwinter]

somehow I don't think that it's a virus.
I had that weird filename problem and apparently it's some kind of error on my HDD. Try running Scandisk or Norton Disk Doctor

 

[Kev]

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