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Geek Culture / Some malware keeps you from dragging and dropping files in windows?

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UFO
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 01:40
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For a while, I noticed that I couldn't drag and drop files on my desktop in windows. I looked for a setting that would lock the icons there and found a few, but they were unchecked. I searched in the internet and it said it was a symptom of Blaster Worm. I thought that didn't make any sense, because a lot of the time, people blame things they don't understand on viruses. But I scanned my computer anyway with Spybot and found tons of spyware (it is a family computer, my little sister plays all kinds of games on the internet, which probably accounts for 80% of the spyware). Blaster Worm wasn't in there, but Wild Tangent was (I have never downloaded any of their games). When I fixed the problems, I could drag and drop files again. (I'm assuming it was Wild Tangent, because it had about 50 associated files and the others only had about 2) Why would this be a symptom of viruses? What's the point in doing that? Why would it even happen?

Does it make it easier to keylog or something?

Just wondering, because it doesn't make much sense to me >.<

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tha_rami
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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 01:43
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A lot of the 'bad' virusses aim to defuncionalize as much as your computers file/process editing functions. The more options you leave to a computer user, the more ways there are to fix the virusses.


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gah, dont even get me started. I spent the better part of last week cleaning house on the in-laws pc. Partially my fault since I didnt keep it up to date with SpyBot and Adaware definitions, or windows updates. By the time they called me it was infested with a slew of nasties, most of which none of the apps could clean automatically. I spent three days manually killing garbage on the machine by using what these apps could at least detect, then going into dos via a win 98 boot disk and killing them buggers.

I am working on a program to make this process easier for next time (not that there will be a next time on that pc) moreso to release as a free helper utility.

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I still have a problem on my other machine, I almost never use it it is for the kids, but you cannot launch the control panel, change screen resolution etc without an admin allowing it, not that there is an admin or even muliple profiles. I assume it is from a virus but have not been able to take the timwe to find out what, adaware/avg/spybot find nothing.

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hasd a problem like this whae i was using windows, nothing would work corectily, and the cpu idled around 20%, it took 10 munites to boot!. i now use Linux, witch has none of these problems

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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 11:44 Edited at: 29th Oct 2007 11:45
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Quote: "not that there is an admin or even muliple profiles"


Yes there is, it's just hidden... You can Unhide the Administrator Account in Windows XP

Quote: "i now use Linux, witch has none of these problems"


That's the way, instead of fixing the problem, do something completely different to ever avoid having to deal with it!

I'm a huge advocate of Linux (I wont get into that here), but what you just said is stupid.

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UFO
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Thanks, but how can dragging and dropping files pose a risk to the virus?

It makes sense the viruses would disable important functions that might help the user get rid of it, but what does this have to do with it?

Thanks

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It may not be just dragging and dropping, but rather it's attacked some other function of explorer.exe and as a result, that feature also suffered.

Things like right-click on certain file-types, and locking a file are common basic tricks that I know of, this could just be another one of them..?

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Posted: 29th Oct 2007 21:54 Edited at: 29th Oct 2007 21:55
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Quote: "i now use Linux, witch has none of these problems"
It doesn't mean there are no virus for Linux, Linux just isn't such a nice target as Windows. And I'm not a big fan of drag and dropping files.


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Quote: "It may not be just dragging and dropping, but rather it's attacked some other function of explorer.exe and as a result, that feature also suffered.

Things like right-click on certain file-types, and locking a file are common basic tricks that I know of, this could just be another one of them..?"


Ok, so its not on purpose, just collateral damage or something? Thanks

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