Shortly before leaving for work this morning I went downstairs to
check e-mail and found Norton auto-protect disabled.
On a broadband router this is generally a sign that virus infection is
imminent
So I disconnect my network cable and resolve to check it out when I
get home - leaving a sign on the monitor saying not to re-connect the
cable. I get home tonight and my cable is connected and my wife says
she just re-connected it since she needed to check her e-mail!
Needless to say my reaction is volcanic and then I notice that tiny
little Norton icon in the system tray next to the time! (I also notice
she has switched accounts to hers which is restricted under WinXP Home
/ Norton AV 2004)
I figure the damage is already done at this point so I let her finish
and then power down and reboot the system. Win XP wants to check my C
drive and sure enough finds cross-linked files. It resolves the
problem by copying the offending sector and finishes the 'Scandisk'
(which I assume everyone here knows has nothing to do with viruses).
It finds three more files cross-linked two of which have "Symantec" or
"Norton" in their name. By this time my eyes are starting to bug out a
bit!
I log in under my account and notice the Norton icon says "disabled"
which is interesting since when I went to work this morning it was
absent altogether. After about a minute it comes up "Norton Anti-Virus
Auto-Protect Enabled"
MORAL: After you disconnect the network cable, don't forget to let
Scandisk do it's thing. What seems to be a virus may just be
cross-linked files.....
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