On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:14:07 -0500, "David Courtney"
wrote:

Gunner,
It looks like the virus has several different names (depending on who's
AV site you ask) but the W32/Gaelicum.A file that you mentioned appears to
be a "separate" trojan/virus that's downloaded by the real Gael/Licum virus.
Look here at "Licum":
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...w32.licum.html
Or McAfee calls it "Gael":
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...virus_k=134857
Sadly, the patch for what this thing exploits has been available since
2003: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-026.mspx
Both sites have some troubleshooting/removal info... but it doesn't look
like much fun.
Hopefully these links will at least point you in the right direction to
find a solution.
David

My computers are current in their patches, and current in AV updates.
It was the last AVG update that caught the bug. It appears that this
is some new version, that is fresh on the market.

Gunner


"Gunner" wrote in message
.. .
My $#@!! kid turned off the firewall (again) and downloaded something
with a nasty malware called W32/Gaelicum.A

Its infected virtually every .exe file in both my server and my
personal computer. Im posting from my non-networked laptop.

It only effects flles with a .exe extension, but thats thousands of
files on all 4 computers on the network. There is very little info on
the net about it, AVG has only been able to detect it for a week or
so.

It appears to be a trojan of some sort.

Anyone got any suggestions of cleaning the sumbitch, other than a full
hard drive format..which means I have to format at least 14
drives...sigh

The #@$%!!! kid lost all acess to the network..his computer has been
removed from the net, and its not a computer Im going to fix. This was
the last straw.....his box just became a doorstop.

Gunner