[ubuntu-in] Problem (*.exe files Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>being created)

[Narendra Diwate]

This thread is something that i will like to see develop. I too use USB
drives between XP and  UBUNTU and do see foldername. exe files in the USB
when i plug it in Ubuntu. I do delete them incl the autorun.ini files.

@To the OP: Do you have a dual boot setup or a Virtual machine install of
Ubuntu. If your /home or /root is shared between XP and Ubuntu using
something like fsdriver or ext2fsd then yes all the drives/folders that are
readable/writable from XP will have the virus. Else NO.

Regards

Narendra Diwate




On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:51, Sriranga(77yrsold)
<withblessings at gmail.com>wrote:

>  reg:inside every folder there was a file {foldername}.exe - kindly confirm
> that inside every folder is of Windows XP and not linux?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:22 PM, $reeHari <theneoindian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try Nod32 beta for linux . It may clean it . not sure , but maybe . You
>> can download it from http://beta.eset.com/ .
>>
>> 2010/6/20 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Rajat Khanduja <
>>> rajatkhanduja13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I started using Ubuntu 9.10 in March'10...since then I've Windows on my
>>>> comp as well...soon after, I noticed that inside every folder there was a
>>>> file {foldername}.exe
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a very common Virus which spreads through USB devices...
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Initially I thought it was a "windows" virus...and tried to clean it up
>>>> using McAffee ...but even though I'm using Ubuntu more often...I end up
>>>> getting them back..and even without using Windows....
>>>>
>>>
>>> I doubt it very much, but a small script written for a cross platform can
>>> even run on Ubuntu but executable permissions will not be enabled by
>>> default...
>>>
>>> But I still think, you should have got in Windows only, may be after
>>> Macfee cleaned, the virus reran the program
>>>
>>> Can you share some more details, does the FAT/NTFS drives only have
>>> {foldername}.exe or all the drives including Home (I doubt /root will be
>>> affected)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure its not normal for a ".exe" file to be created on its own in
>>>> Ubuntu....what shall I do..I'm not using any antivirus..I've CLAMAV..but I
>>>> don't know how to use the command-line version...
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are right, no executable permissions will be given by default...
>>>
>>> May be you can Re-Install Windows XP if none of the Antivirus Software
>>> applications able to clean those viruses...
>>> I know this is the the last option, but I can't see any other solutions
>>>
>>> Others pour in your suggestions...
>>>
>>>
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