If you recently purchased a Barebones system BB-SY-A33E4 to build for personal or for a customer…Do not use the Mobo driver disk included w/ the barebones pack (or the disk included w/ the SY-K7VME Mobo sold separately), unless you also immediately download from the disk, install & run the Panda AV 30 day trial right away as 1 of the 4 programs on that CD disk is actually infected w/ the virus Natas.4744, which is an overwriting, full stealth, polymorphic, encrypting, memory resident, multi-partite virus. This virus infects .COM and .EXE files, as well as the hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR) and diskette boot sectors. Natas.4744 is a very fast infector.
Upon infection, Natas.4744 becomes memory resident as a Terminate-and-Stay Resident. The virus hooks interrupts 13 and 21″, according to both McAfee & Panda….I warn because Norton doesn’t find the virus and their write-up treats that virus as a hoax virus….Can anyone figure out that? Anyone have experience w/ this particular virus? I understand its been around since 1998.
I’m sure there are more than just a few of these infected disks out there in the world by now as the BB system has been a very hot seller. got mine from Tig Dir online to build for my son as an X-mas gift and loaded up the Panda trial AV (just to see what the trial offered), which found it not only on the brand new Maxtor HDD, but also on the CD still in the drive during the install scan.
Lucky for me it wasn’t a machine for a customer as I would have installed NSW which does not include or find this particular nasty.
Just thought I’d warn the community.
