Looking for a program

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited October 2007 in Science & Tech
I am going to infect my home PC with a virus that no one seems to know anything about, yet it's on our network here at work. We cannot figure out how to get rid of it so as I mentioned I am going to infect my PC by bringing to work.

I need a program that can take a snap shot of my computer and tell me what has changed from before getting the virus to after.

As well any a registry tracker. I want to see everything that happens, any suggestions as well.

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2007
    There is System Snapshot I've never used it, but it claims to do what you want.

    As for killing your virus try symantec's online anti-virus scanner if none of your in office stuff is working on it.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2007
    AVG free or any of the decent online free anti virus apps?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    I've tried many, it's either not a virus or not been seen yet. AVG, Avast, Kaspersky, Panda, the works... nothing detects it. I just need to find this software and that is all.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2007
    Ok so if none of your anti-virus software detect it, what makes you think you have a virus?
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited October 2007
    Because it may be one. Just because an antivirus doesn't detect it doesn't make it not a virus.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    Exactly, however it may be been a DNS issue.... a very very very very very very very very very complicated, annoying, and confusing DNS issue. Maybe a virus infecting some DNS servers, dunno... if the problem doesn't come back on any of our systems in the next 24 hours, then all is good.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2007
    Your Amish Daddy wrote:
    Because it may be one. Just because an antivirus doesn't detect it doesn't make it not a virus.

    True. But what I'm saying is - what's happening that makes him THINK he's got a virus. There's got to be some symptom.

    If it's a tone of network traffic it could be a bad port on a switch, bad cable, bad nic, wiring loop, etc.... Lots of physical things that can cause weird networking issues that doesn't make it a virus.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2007
    kryyst wrote:
    True. But what I'm saying is - what's happening that makes him THINK he's got a virus. There's got to be some symptom.

    If it's a tone of network traffic it could be a bad port on a switch, bad cable, bad nic, wiring loop, etc.... Lots of physical things that can cause weird networking issues that doesn't make it a virus.

    I really don't feel like explaining it.... it was made to look and seem similar to default error messages, it it most definitely was not. Replacing DNS servers, flushing DNS, and rebooting the whole network fixed the issue.

    It seems the DNS servers we've been using, as well as some other people(and mind you these were multiple DNS servers from different people) are infected with a virus themselves it would seem to me.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2007
    This whole scenario seems highly unlikely.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited October 2007
    There is stuff out there not being caught by even the best scanners. I recently had to find a smitfraudfix removal tool for such an infection (creating annoying fake security alerts).

    http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
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