Possible virus

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Al Kohalyk

I have a co-worker who is getting me to look at his machine, and doing my
research, I am stumped. I am pretty sure that he has a virus in his
computer. He says that Norton Anti-virus runs fine, but when trying to do a
live update, it won't let him.

Anyone got any ideas about which virus this might be??
 
Al Kohalyk said:
I have a co-worker who is getting me to look at his machine, and doing my
research, I am stumped. I am pretty sure that he has a virus in his
computer. He says that Norton Anti-virus runs fine, but when trying to do a
live update, it won't let him.

Anyone got any ideas about which virus this might be??
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Many worms modify the HOSTS file so that it redirects many of the security
sites to 127.0.0.1 (your own IP adress).
This *may* be he reason the cant contact live upate. Try loading up
www.symantec.com in the browser, if you cant then thats probably the answer.

Just do a search for HOSTS and remove the bogus entries.
 
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