Hate to say it, but i’ve seen a few trojans like this. In fact, I have many many samples of them. Most of which were sent to Avast a week ago and still aren’t in the doggon database! What up?
If you caught a name of it, let me know, i’ll check it with my records to see if its one of the hundreds I sent to Avast. Mighta prevented this maybe, ugh.
Unfortunately, many AV’s are 100% ITW, but hopelessly neglected threats from say 2 years ago, which the average joe are more likely to run into in my experiance. Gotta shore up those databases from the old threats too and not ignore them!
not being rude, ok yes i am, but i couldnt care less whether they are busy or not. Thats what we pay for, or supposedly.
I am now re-installing everything including windows for the second time in 24 hours after it infected my backups too. I have lost years of work, photos and everything. Simply because they dont have old records added…what a joke guys. how about a refund?
Unfortunately, many AV's are 100% ITW, but hopelessly neglected threats from say 2 years ago, which the average joe are more likely to run into in my experiance. Gotta shore up those databases from the old threats too and not ignore them!
That’s simply not true. We don’t really care about the age of the malware…
I doubt it was a Trojan either…
not being rude, ok yes i am, but i couldnt care less whether they are busy or not. Thats what we pay for, or supposedly.
Of course, I agree.
Now I’d recommend focusing on the main thing – getting back the data.
Are you saying that your backups contain files that are already truncated/overwritten? What I’d need is some kind of trace from the beast. So that we could tell what it was. Is it still on the back ups then?
Seems like avast detects AXON(.A) as “Win32:Xenon”, but not AXON.B
That’s a pity…
I’m sorry about your files, hungrylilboy,
and avast SHOULD have detected it,
and you will neither like this, nor does it help you at present,
but as a hint for the future:
a) we don’t live in a perfect world:
b) FACT: no AV-scanner offers 100% detection/protection
c) if I look at your past postings & at the description of AXON.B:
"This virus has been distributed on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, using deceptive filenames such as “Keygen.exe.”
→ you should exercise some more caution when using your PC & moving about the internet
P.S.: I hope your MP3 & AVI on (external ?) backup media are still intact ?
P.P.S: According to the date when Win32:XENON was included in avast’s database, it could also be that this includes BOTH AXON/XENON-variants ?
Mabe VLK could comment…
HLB: Your resident shield & P2P-Provider was always on & configured correctly ?
1)my pc was fully up to date with windows update. This mean that the windows fix doesnt work?
2)i lost all my mp3 and avi file
3)i was looking for the netmeeting file, conf.exe and couldnt find it anywhere on google, so did end up using kazaa. Big mistake I know. (by formatting, i do have my real conf.exe back though! ;D) (just looked again to try and get a hash but cant find it. Had about 15 users, was “correctly” labelled - at least one person had anyway)
4)please can this be added as this is the nasiest virus i have ever encountered
5)sorry again for stressing earlier. Bit hard losing all that work (oh forgot to say that most of the mp3 were my own work)
6)avast! definately got infected. Think it was one of the first, because as soon as I realised I had somehing wrong, I tried to open it and it opened a c prompt and crashed.
7)avast! was running properly before this
i dont use p2p much but i though avast! was set to automatically scan them?