# peculiar virus, my computer empty

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by skpoet711 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 29-Mar-2008 21:06:19

Upon troubleshooting a desktop I noticed that upon clicking on the my computer icon, all the items within it had vanished. The person to whom the computer belonged to had explained that upon clicking on an mp3 file, the computer had froze, and she performed a cold reboot.
The mp3 was copied over from another person's laptop. I then commenced a full reimagin from a previous set of image and found that the problem remained. I then reimaged even further, and yet the problem persisted. As you all know, the "my computer" contains the local hard disk c, dvd burner or what even external 5.25 drive you place, and any other drives that you have connected; along with the shared folder or what not. Yet, everything is gone. the only way I could reach the hard drives was if I entered the path in to the address or through the run from the start menu.
I am not aware of any other varying damage this virus is capable of, but I have found very little support in this matter from the internet leaving me to attempt all the defenses via antivirus programs from my arsenal.
So far, spybot found nothing, and pc cillin found 2, I will see what nod32 and counterspy can do next.
I understand that this file was downloaded via bear share. In terms of what is the precise name of the mp3, she no longer can remember, I just know that such a virus exists. Whatever it is, it has infected my images that lies on a separate partition of the hard drive. Very canny little thing.
Has anyone encountered this who uses bear share frequently?

## Post 2 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Sunday, 30-Mar-2008 11:08:53

I use bearshare all the time, either that or itunes to get my music. I'll start scanning files i grab from bearshare with AVG. U may wanna run AVG on that computer, see if it'll pick anything up too. Just my suggestion

## Post 3 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Sunday, 30-Mar-2008 17:40:27

that is really interesting and sounds like fun to implement... but it sounds really scary at the same time. As for the name of the mp3, lol, forget it, names have really little to do ... although common names would be useful. I am going to research this topic as well.. it seems rather interesting that just an mp3 can do all of this. it surely had to be from a previous and more hidden binary or executable.

## Post 4 by electrode (Newborn Zoner) on Saturday, 26-Apr-2008 18:08:50

hello, I use bearshare a lot for audio books and verious files. I have a stratigy for avoiding beasties that I hope you find useful. This is that if you hear the file size and type, and it's a zip or any type of media file and if the zip file is about 202477 bytes in size, or if the media file is about 128 K I wouldn't download because 100 to 1 it's a beasty. If you are unlucky to download the zip file and look in it, there's an .exe file in there. If you don't want your computer destroyed, don't oppen that file because you can't alwais trust anti-virus software although AVG gets most of these things. I hope you find this information helpful. bye

## Post 5 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Saturday, 26-Apr-2008 21:21:24

Yes, always watch your file sizes if u r gonna use bearshare. I also scan mine once they're done downloading to be double sure.