Hi Everyone
Yes This is an old worm, But looking at its behavour there were similaraties
So my thinking was It could have been modified.
Hey Birdy, 4 hours of searching & this is the only thing so far that I found that was even remotly similar.
After going through the list of file names that had been posted I realised that
we have most of them present, Here on the network.
Im not a teki so if anyone can sujest other places to look, I will do some donky work sniffin around.

why dont L/W just limmit the file extentions you can share in tools/options/sharing,Extensions. If the defult setting (beginers) ticked auto at setup only had audio,vidio,pic,doc. then an advanced tab for, fools & experts, we would not have half the crap in search. Because the newbies
could not auto share exe rar zip an other crap. If I gave a small child a motor
bike n said ride it, without checking how n if they could you would call me
recless, well I beileve P2P also needs stablizers for most of the new guys at the first.

P.S.. sorry off topic.....But is'nt that easly possable.
Peace.

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Have a look here, at posts #8 & #9
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...754#post255754

When you do a search for xzxzxzxzxzxz.exe....
http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-100...B.Ymeak.A.html

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic45260.html

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...indows-xp.html
(check out post #4 of the above...they're telling people to use BFU, same as is used for the LW always popping up worm)

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofive...hp/t72978.html
(also mentions BFU)

When you do a search for q7q7q7q7q7q7q7q7xx.zip
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=93859

I know nothing about cleaning up this sort of thing...I don't see how running BFU could hurt but I don't know if it's going to fix the whole thing either. KillBox is mentioned a couple of times also, but I've never heard of that one. We could get people to run BFU & if that doesn't fix the prob, then send them on to one of the help sites?
Or one of the gurus might have some more info & suggestions? Atm, people are just refusing to believe they're infected at all...if their AV doesn't pick anything up then they're convinced things are ok.

What do you guys think?

Good info Birdy!

The people in those spyware forums really seem to know their stuff! At least now everyone that is having this problem has somewhere to go...in the thread that I was most impressed by (the last one), the expert had the person download 5 or 6 programs to eliminate all of the malware! This just goes to show how evasive some of these nasty files can be. No program is guaranteed to get rid of all malware. It can be quite a battle, and that's why we try our best to avoid it in the first place! Of course, a few people must take one for the team, so to speak, whenever something new like this pops up. Good luck to everyone that is suffering through this.

Dano

Excellent research Birdy...I'm Bookmarking this page...

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I asked about this over at the Beta forums the other day and Aaron has replied with this...
http://www.limewire.org/forum/showpo...16&postcount=2

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